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heart bleeds

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your heart bleeds
if your heart bleeds for someone who is in trouble, you feel sadness and sympathy for them
Usage notes: This phrase is often used humorously to mean the opposite.
(often + for ) My heart bleeds for the poor children caught up in the fighting. Brenda can't afford another diamond necklace? My heart bleeds!
See also: bleed, heart
your heart bleeds (for somebody)
you feel sadness and sympathy for someone When my little girl cries in the night, my heart bleeds.
See also: bleed, heart
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Then Minerva said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it served Aegisthus right, and so it would any one else who does as he did; but Aegisthus is neither here nor there; it is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea-girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
"Gentlemen," he said, "this is a serious business and my heart bleeds as if you had pierced it through and through.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
My heart bleeds for her as I see her toiling along on her weary feet, or seated in a cart, with her eyes fixed vacantly on the road before her, never thinking or caring whither it tends, till hunger comes and makes her desire that a village may be near.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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