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heart sinks

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somebody's heart sinks
if someone's heart sinks, they start to feel sad or worried He looked at the huge pile of work on his desk and his heart sank.
See also: heart, sink

your heart sinks
you become discouraged or disappointed My heart sank when I opened the letter and realized I had not been accepted into graduate school.
See also: heart, sink


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Even at this distance of time my heart sinks, my courage fails me, at the critical stage in my narrative which I have now reached.
Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility.
Had he been by himself, he would have stayed to see it out with the others, but now his heart sinks and all his pluck goes.
 
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