| 单词 | eat one's heart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat one's (own) heart c. to eat one's (own) heart: to suffer from silent grief or vexation. Also in Biblical phrase, to eat one's own flesh: said of an indolent person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > suffer anguish or torment [verb (intransitive)] anguisha1400 smoke1548 wring1565 to eat one's (own) heart1590 to bleed inwardlya1616 sting1849 twinge1850 to be hard (sometimes heavily, badly) hit1854 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > feel sorrow or grief [verb (intransitive)] sorroweOE sorryeOE careOE heavyOE mournOE rueOE murkenOE dole13.. likec1330 wailc1374 ensorrowc1384 gloppen?a1400 sytea1400 teena1400 grievec1400 angera1425 erme1481 yearna1500 aggrieve1559 discomfort?a1560 melancholyc1580 to eat one's (own) heart1590 repent1590 passion1598 sigh1642 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)] > pine honea1400 languor1526 pine1569 to eat one's (own) heart1590 sicken1802 moon1878 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B3v He could not rest, but did his stout heart eat. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. iv. 5 The foole foldeth his hands together, and eateth his owne flesh. View more context for this quotation 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cvi. 166 I will not eat my heart alone. View more context for this quotation 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xviii. 333 Eating away their own hearts in the consciousness of an ineffectual protest. to eat one's heart (a) to eat one's heart out (formerly also †to eat one's heart): to suffer pangs of vexation, longing, envy, regret, etc.; (now less commonly) to pine away. Similarly to eat out one's heart, †to eat up one's heart. See also eat v. 8c, to eat out 3 at eat v. Phrasal verbs. [Apparently originally after Hellenistic Greek μὴ ἐσθίειν καρδίαν (Plutarch, Moralia 12E); compare quot. ?1532.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer bitter regret to eat one's heart?1532 ?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) xii. sig. F.ij Eate no harte [Gk. μὴ ἐσθίειν καρδίαν], what doth it els signifie, but accombre not thy mynde with thoughtes, ne do not fatigate the with cares? 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. f. 48 If you thinke to stoppe euerie ones mouth: Which were to eate up your heart, as they say. 1586 E. Hoby tr. M. Coignet Polit. Disc. Trueth xii. 50 Thorough a thousande perturbations, which causeth them cleane to depart from tranquillitie, which an auncient writer termed to eate out ones heart. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. Hv Whether it were for meere niggardise, or that Castaldo still eate out his heart with iealousie. 1651 E. Calamy Saints Rest 16 A man that eats out his heart with worldly cares, will never sleep an happy sleep. 1707 S. Cobb Poems 245 He eat his valiant Heart to see the Prey He thought his own, so bravely snatch'd away. 1763 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 116/2 Shall I such base Egyptian bondage bear, And eat my heart thro' sorrow, grief and care? 1853 W. M. Thackeray Let. 11 Mar. (1946) III. 233 She is..without..good looks, thirty years old..buried in the country, and eating up her own heart there, and no Tompkins will come. 1863 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 July 53/1 You may eat your heart out (figuratively), while waiting for the employment professional etiquette will not permit you to seek. 1913 ‘M. Maartens’ Dorothea ix. 258 I had heart that the poor fellow was eating out his heart at home. 1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill ii. i. 181 Nelson..was eating his heart out in the Mediterranean, but he could not bring them [sc. the fleets of France and Spain] to battle. 2011 N. Polizzi Shore Thing xxxix. 254 If Rocky, aka the Idiot Traitor ex-boyfriend, could see her now, he'd be eating his heart out. < as lemmas |
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