with an aching head and a broken heart
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j í sh ǒ ut ò NGX ī n, which means sad to the extreme. I hate to the extreme. It comes from the epitaph of Cao Haining.
The origin of Idioms
The epitaph of Cao Haining, a collection of epitaphs of the Han, Wei and southern and Northern Dynasties, says: "the people who are the owners of the city are deeply distressed." In the biography of Yu Ji in the Southern History: "I don't want the general to be confused by heresy and turn over his different plans. I'm sorry for the reason. I'm sorry for the general's stealing."
Analysis of Idioms
It's a pain in the heart
Idiom usage
All the foolish men and women in the world are heartbroken and willing to fight to the death of the enemy. Song Yue Fei's play on Liu Yu's Zhazi
with an aching head and a broken heart
scratch one 's head and stroke one 's ear - sāo tóu zhuā ěr