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.

Example Sentences

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My heart bleeds for you and the other families!

From Fox News

“My heart bleeds for you,” Dix replied.

From New York Times

It's sung to the tune 'My Heart Bleeds for You' played on the worlds smallest violin. ow4744 Mar 24th 2012 2:07 GMT "austerity measures are likely to make economic conditions worse while raising very little new revenue" As a British reader, I am getting increasingly frustrated by the Economist's position on austerity - why is it good for Britain but nowhere else?

From Economist

It's sung to the tune 'My Heart Bleeds for You' played on the worlds smallest violin.

From Economist

If you could know how I reverence your sorrow, how my heart bleeds for you—O pardon me—if you could see my heart, you would see there a devotion, a reverence, such as angels feel in heaven.

From Project Gutenberg

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