单词 | feel for |
释义 | feel forSEE SYNONYMS FOR feel for ON THESAURUS.COM Grope, reach for with one's hands, as in It was pitch dark, and I felt for the doorknob. [Early 1700s] feel for someone. Sympathize with or feel sorry for someone, as in Tom was so upset that I felt for him. This usage was put as feel with by Shakespeare: “It resounds as if it felt with Scotland” (Macbeth, 4:3). Both senses of feel for are present in the somewhat sarcastic I feel for you but I can't quite reach you, meaning “Too bad, but I don't really feel sorry for you.” Words nearby feel forfeel, feel-bad, feel blue, feeler, feeler gauge, feel for, feel free, feel-good, feeling, feelings, feel in one's bones The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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