my heart bleeds for you



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.
See also: bleed, heart

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Yukiyoo-keeJapanese
Nechemyah-Biblical Hebrew
EnİSe-Turkish
KatarÍNa-Slovak
Jian-Chinese
Sophus-Ancient Greek (Latinized)