eat one 's heart out

eat one 's heart out

The Chinese idiom ch ó uch á NGC ù NDU à n in pinyin means that all the intestines are broken by sorrow. It describes the extreme of sorrow. From cloud song.

Idiom explanation

Melancholy: a lingering heart.

The origin of Idioms

Fu Xuan's "cloud song" in the Jin Dynasty: "green mountains wander, worrying for me." Zhang Zhuo of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his Youxian Cave: "a thousand lines of tears, a broken heart, sitting on the Hengqin, tears and blood flow."

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym: happy, elated and happy

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial to describe extreme sorrow. example she's very sad now.