- tear heart out
- tear (your) heart out
to make you very sad.
Your article on the death of those students tore my heart out.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
tear heart out
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tear someone's heart out — tear someone’s heart out/tear at someone’s heart/literary phrase to make someone feel very sad or upset Thesaurus: to make someone feel sad or upsetsynonym Main entry: tear … Useful english dictionary
tear your heart out — ˌtear at your ˈheart | ˌtear your ˈheart out idiom (formal) to strongly affect you in an emotional way Main entry: ↑tearidiom … Useful english dictionary
tear your heart out — tear (your) heart out to make you very sad. Your article on the death of those students tore my heart out … New idioms dictionary
tear the heart out of something — ˌtear/ˌrip the ˈheart out of sth idiom to destroy the most important part or aspect of sth • Closing the factory tore the heart out of the community. Main entry: ↑heartidiom … Useful english dictionary
rip the heart out of something — mainly journalism phrase to destroy or seriously damage something These changes will rip the heart out of the island’s economy. Thesaurus: to destroy or severely damage somethingsynonym Main entry: rip * * * ˌtear/ˌrip the ˈheart out of sth … Useful english dictionary
tear at someone's heart — tear someone’s heart out/tear at someone’s heart/literary phrase to make someone feel very sad or upset Thesaurus: to make someone feel sad or upsetsynonym Main entry: tear … Useful english dictionary
tear at your heart — ˌtear at your ˈheart | ˌtear your ˈheart out idiom (formal) to strongly affect you in an emotional way Main entry: ↑tearidiom … Useful english dictionary
tear — tear1 W3S3 [tıə US tır] n 1.) [C usually plural] a drop of salty liquid that comes out of your eye when you are crying ▪ The children were all in tears . ▪ She came home in floods of tears . ▪ I could see that Sam was close to tears . ▪ Bridget… … Dictionary of contemporary English
tear — 1 noun 1 (C) a drop of salty liquid that flows from your eye when you are crying: Tears just rolled down his face. | tear stained cheeks | (be) in tears (=crying): My wife actually broke down in tears telling me. | burst into tears (=suddenly… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
tear — tear1 [ ter ] (past tense tore [ tɔr ] ; past participle torn [ tɔrn ] ) verb ** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to pull something so that it separates into pieces or gets a hole in it, or to become damaged in this way: RIP: It s made of very… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
