eat one's heart out

eat one's heart out
eat one's heart out
1. Fig. to grieve; to be sorrowful. (Fixed order.) •

She has been eating her heart out over that jerk ever since he ran away with Sally.

Don't eat your heart out. You really didn't like him that much, did you?

2. Fig. to suffer from envy or jealousy. (Usually a command.) •

Yeah, the reward money is all mine. Eat your heart out!

Eat your heart out! I won it fair and square.

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{v. phr.} To grieve long and hopelessly; to become thin and weak from sorrow. * /For months after her husband's death, Joanne simply ate her heart out./ * /We sometimes hear of a dog eating its heart out for a dead owner./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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