my heart bleeds for sb
used to say that you feel great sadness for someone. This phrase is often used humorously to mean the opposite:
humorous John complains he only has two cars - my heart bleeds for him (= I certainly do not feel sadness about that)!
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Sympathy & compassion
- a good listener idiom
- a shoulder to cry on idiom
- aw
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- better luck next time idiom
- cloud
- feel for sb
- fellow feeling
- go out to sb
- hard luck! idiom
- hard/tough cheese! idiom
- poor
- relate
- relate to sb
- sad
- sensitive
- shoulder
- solace
- sympathy vote
- understanding
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