单词 | eat your heart out |
释义 | eat your heart outphrase [VERB and NOUN inflect] See full dictionary entry for eatPeople use eat your heart out with the name of a person when they are doing something that they think the person named might be jealous of. Synonyms: grieve, regret, pine, obsess More Synonyms of eat your heart out eat your heart outwhen you want to draw attention to something you have done, you can say 'eat your heart out' and mention the name of a person who is famous for doing the same kind of thing. In the following example, James Bond is a fictional spy. We just managed to overtake the bus, and smashed through the gate just as it wasbeing closed. James Bond, eat your heart out, I say. Synonyms of 'eat your heart out'grieve, regret, pine, obsess More Synonyms of eat your heart out (idiom) Synonyms grieve He's grieving over his dead wife and son. regret pine obsess mourn sorrow She was lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. brood He constantly broods about his family. agonize mope Get on with life; don't sit back and mope. repine (literary) Additional synonymsin the sense of brood Definition to think long and unhappily about something He constantly broods about his family. Synonyms think, obsess, muse, ponder, fret, meditate, agonize, mull over, mope, ruminate, eat your heart out, dwell upon, repinein the sense of mope Definition to walk around in a gloomy and aimless manner Get on with life; don't sit back and mope. Synonyms brood, moon, pine, hang around, idle, fret, pout, languish, waste time, sulk, be gloomy, eat your heart out, be apathetic, be dejected, be down in the mouth (informal), have a long face, wear a long face, go about like a half-shut knife (informal) in the sense of repine Definition to be worried or discontented Synonyms complain, moan (informal), grieve, murmur, lament, grumble, brood, fret, languish, sulk, mope, eat your heart outNearby words of |
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