| 释义 |
eat one's heart out1Suffer from excessive longing for someone or something unattainable: I could have stayed in London eating my heart out for you...- I've been eating my heart out for the last three weeks because he lost the San Diego.
- Jamie is eating his heart out for Amanda, the fashion-model wife who ditched him, and whom he still keeps pursuing until he warms to a blind date, Vicky, a philosophy student with whom he may start afresh.
- Let him eat his heart out for what he'd rejected.
Synonyms pine, long, ache, brood, mope, fret, sigh, sorrow, suffer, bleed, yearn, agonize, weep and wail, regret someone's loss/absence; grieve, mourn, lament, shed tears; be filled with envy informal die literary repine 1.1 [in imperative] informal Used to indicate that one thinks someone will feel great jealousy or regret: eat your heart out, those who missed the trip...- The PM's car has a steel plate underside, panic buttons, an exploding windscreen, loudspeakers and even gun ports: 007, eat your heart out.
- Performing home-grown songs laced with a healthy mix of rock standards - including a simply sublime version of Pink Cadillac - eat your heart out, Springsteen - this band set the stage alight.
- There is a surprise victor at Wimbledon, Maria Sharapova, who as well as taking the plate also wowed the crowds - Anna Kournikova eat your heart out.
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