misery loves company

misery loves company

Miserable people like others to be unhappy. I know misery loves company, but quit trying to bring me down just because you had a bad day at work.
See also: company, love, misery
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Misery loves company.

Prov. Unhappy people like other people to be unhappy too. Jill: Why is Linda criticizing everybody today? Jane: Her boss criticized her this morning, and misery loves company. I should probably feel bad because my sister is so depressed, but I'm pretty depressed myself. Misery loves company.
See also: company, love, misery
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

misery loves company

Fellow sufferers make unhappiness easier to bear, as in She secretly hoped her friend would fail, too-misery loves company. Words to this effect appeared in the work of Sophocles (c. 408 b.c.) and other ancient writers; the earliest recorded use in English was about 1349.
See also: company, love, misery
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

misery loves company

Fellow sufferers make pain easier to bear. This observation dates from ancient Greek and Roman times or even earlier; Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonnus, ca. 408 b.c.) and Seneca (ca. a.d. 54) both wrote words to that effect. John Lyly’s Euphues stated it as “In misery it is great comfort to haue a companion” (1579), but the precise wording of the modern cliché does not appear until the nineteenth century. More recently, Brian Moore quipped, “If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience” (An Answer from Limbo, 1962).
See also: company, love, misery
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • have the mulligrubs
  • have the mullygrubs
  • mulligrubs
  • mullygrubs
  • (as) miserable as sin
  • miserable
  • miserable/ugly as sin
  • misery guts
  • be in a bad mood
  • (as) happy as a duck in Arizona
References in classic literature
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Uneasy Money
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Damned documentation
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Also, it's usually the unhappy children who poke fun at others and make them hurt, because misery loves company. Expose them to diversity Travel more and expose your children to different cultures, religions, beliefs and ways of life.
Teaching tolerance to the next generation