bleed for

bleed for (someone or something)

1. To acutely feel another person's emotional pain along with them. My mother is a crying mess whenever she watches the news because she just bleeds for any victim of a tragedy.
2. To support something so passionately as to accept pain and suffering on its behalf. I know this is an unpopular cause, and I am willing to bleed for it—let's go to the protest!
See also: bleed
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bleed for someone

Fig. to feel the emotional pain that someone else is feeling; to sympathize or empathize with someone. I just bled for him when I heard his sad story. We bled for her as she related her recent woes.
See also: bleed
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bleed for (someone or something)
  • appear to
  • a change of heart
  • a mystery to (one)
  • a turn of phrase
  • able to do
  • able to do it
  • a shoulder to cry on
  • a piece of the action
  • a piece/slice of the action
References in periodicals archive
Mean length of stay for the second bleed for Group B was 37.52 hours.
In haemophilia - an inherited deficiency of bloodclotting factors due to abnormal genes - even a small cut may bleed for hours or days and there may be episodes of spontaneous bleeding.
In haemophilia, an inherited deficiency of blood clotting factors because of abnormal genes, even a small cut may bleed for hours or days and there may be episodes of spontaneous bleeding.