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Grieving, very disappointed, dejected, as in We were sick at heart when we learned of her predicament . This idiom, which transfers heart disease to unhappiness, was first recorded in 1581.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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