sick at heart

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Despairing,distressed, oranxious.1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, inThe Last Man.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:Henry Colburn,[…],→OCLC:I becamesick at heart. My countenance was painted with the hues of ill health and vexation.1853,Charles Dickens,A Child's History of England, Ch. 12—Henry the Second:Sick at heart, wearied out by the falsehood of his sons, and almost ready to lie down and die, the unhappy King who had so long stood firm, began to fail.1919,Ralph Connor, chapter 19, inThe Major:Sick at heartand oppressed with his feeling of loneliness and impotence, he could only look at her in speechless misery.1963December 13, “Playwrights: Cynicism Uncongealed”, inTime, retrieved5 December 2018:So we weep for two or three years more, very quietly, and then one day, toosick at heart, we die, with no fuss, leaving as little trace on earth as a bird's flight across the sky.2007August 20,Jeff Zeleny, “At veterans convention, Clinton and McCain differ on Iraq”, inNew York Times, retrieved5 December 2018:"As we all know, the war in Iraq has not gone well[…]," said McCain, an Arizona Republican. "I understand that, of course. I, too, have been madesick at heartby the many mistakes made by civilian and military commanders and the terrible price we have paid for them."

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