B1idiomemotionsIELTS-friendly
with a heavy heart
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feeling sad, especially when doing something you must do
Often at the start of a sentence or after a verb like 'leave', 'say goodbye', 'announce'. Common in formal announcements too.
In context
With a heavy heart, we sold the old family house in Hue.
She left her hometown with a heavy heart to start work in Ho Chi Minh City.
More idioms about emotions
- a bitter pill to swallowan unpleasant fact or situation that is hard to accept
- a bundle of nervesvery nervous and worried
- a chip on your shouldera lasting anger because you feel you were treated unfairly in the past
- a knot in your stomacha tight, sick feeling in your body caused by worry or fear
- a lump in your throata tight feeling in your throat because you are so moved that you might cry