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Cultural Dictionary
Misery loves company definition
People who are unhappy may get some consolation from knowing that others are unhappy too.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Misery loves company
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Idioms & Phrases
misery loves company
Fellow sufferers make unhappiness easier to bear, as in She secretly hoped her friend would fail, too
misery loves company. Words to this effect appeared in the work of Sophocles (c. 408 b.c.) and other ancient writers; the earliest recorded use in English was about 1349.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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