断腸

断腸
だんちょう
heartbreak
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だんちょう【断腸】
¶~の思いがした
My heart was torn by grief. 悲しみで胸が張り裂けそうだった.
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だんちょう【断腸】
heartbreak; sickness to the stomach.

断腸の思い heartbreaking [heart-rending, gut-wrenching, stomach-sickening] grief

・断腸の思いがする feel one's heart rent [torn to pieces]; feel as if one's heart were breaking; be brokenhearted; be sick to the stomach

・それを聞いて断腸の思いがした. I felt my heart would break [bleed] to hear that. | It was heart-rending news to me. | The news came as a blow to my stomach.

・断腸の思いをさせる break sb's heart; grieve sb to the very heart; hit sb in the stomach

・議員辞職の責任をかぶせられる秘書はさぞ断腸の思いだろう. The assistant must be sick to the stomach at being made to carry the can for the Diet member's resignation.


Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.

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