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my heart bleeds for you

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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  2. my eye,
  3. my fair lady,
  4. my god,
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  8. my name is mud,
  9. my-,
  10. my-my
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