feel as if a knife were piercing one 's heart

feel as if a knife were piercing one 's heart

Heart like a file, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ī NR ú D ā ocuॸ, which means heart like a knife. It's from wumi, a butterfly in love with flowers.

Analysis of Idioms

Heart is like a knife, heart is like a knife, heart is like a knife

The origin of Idioms

Yuan and Zhou Wenzhi's song "dielianhuawumi": "disease, heart like a file, know the temples of bronze."

Idiom usage

As predicate, attributive, adverbial; describe extreme pain.