my heart bleeds for you

Idioms

I don't feel at all sorry for you, I don't sympathize, as in You only got a five percent raise? My heart bleeds for you. Originating in the late 1300s, this hyperbolic expression of sympathy has been used ironically since the mid-1700s.

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my heart bleeds for you

Poor Jack, my heart bleeds for you; but cheer up, and go on.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

"You can't make me angry, Lucy, because my heart bleeds for you."

From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Ah, my brother, my heart bleeds for you.

From The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons by Arthur Symons

"Well, I must be content to bear it, though, in the mean time, my heart bleeds for you, Mildred; it is a painful trial."

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

Oh, Governor! my heart bleeds for you, and for what you have done, my poor fellow!

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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