someone's heart goes out

someone's heart goes out

1. Someone feels sympathy.

   My heart goes out to you.

   • 1941, Winston Churchill, The Unrelenting Struggle:

     We know too well the bestial assault you are making upon the Russian people, to whom our hearts go out in their valiant struggle. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

• someone's heart bleeds

• “heart goes out to”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “your heart goes out to someone”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “someone's heart goes out” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.