bleed for (someone or something)
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.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
bleed for someone
in. to sympathize with someone. I really bleed for you, but there’s nothing I can do.
See also: bleed, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- bleed for
- 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