heavy heart

heavy heart
{n. phr.} A feeling of being weighed down with sorrow; unhappiness. * /They had very heavy hearts as they went to the funeral./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • heavy heart — a feeling of sadness It is with a heavy heart that I bring you this bad news. • • • Main Entry: ↑heart heavy heart ◇ If you have a heavy heart, you are sad. I announced my decision to leave with a heavy heart. • • • Main Entry: ↑heavy …   Useful english dictionary

  • heavy heart — sad, sorrowful    It was with a heavy heart that he attended his father s funeral …   English idioms

  • heavy heart — a feeling of sadness or unhappiness He seems to have a heavy heart now that his wife has died …   Idioms and examples

  • heavy heart — Synonyms and related words: aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bathos, bitterness, bleeding heart, broken heart, crushing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, extremity, grief, heartache, heaviness, heaviness of… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • heavy heart — {n. phr.} A feeling of being weighed down with sorrow; unhappiness. * /They had very heavy hearts as they went to the funeral./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • heavy\ heart — n. phr. A feeling of being weighed down with sorrow; unhappiness. They had very heavy hearts as they went to the funeral …   Словарь американских идиом

  • heavy heart — feeling of sorrow or sadness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • (a) heavy heart — a heavy ˈheart idiom a feeling of great sadness • She left her children behind with a heavy heart. Main entry: ↑heavyidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • with a heavy heart — mainly literary phrase feeling sad Thesaurus: feeling sad or unhappysynonym Main entry: heart …   Useful english dictionary

  • Heart — (h[aum]rt), n. [OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS. heorte; akin to OS. herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza, G. herz, Icel. hjarta, Sw. hjerta, Goth. ha[ i]rt[=o], Lith. szirdis, Russ. serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L. cor, Gr. kardi a, kh^r. [root]277. Cf …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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