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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. My heart bleeds for the poor children caught up in the fighting. (often + for) Brenda can't afford another diamond necklace? My heart bleeds!
See also: bleed, heart

your heart bleeds (for someone)
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.
"Gentlemen," he said, "this is a serious business and my heart bleeds as if you had pierced it through and through.
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.
 
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