share (one's) sorrow Idiom, Proverb
drown your sorrow
drink until the sadness goes away Jay drowned her sorrow in wine. Then she had a headache.
Drown your sorrows
If someone gets drunk or drinks a lot to try to stop feeling unhappy, they drown their sorrows.
drown one's troubles|drown|drown one's sorrows|sor
v. phr.,
informal To drink liquor to try to forget something unhappy.
When his wife was killed in an auto accident, Mr. Green tried to drown his sorrows in whiskey. When Fred lost his job and had to give up his new car, he tried to drown his troubles at the nearest tavern.
drown one's sorrows
drown one's sorrows Drink liquor to escape one's unhappiness. For example,
After the divorce, she took to drowning her sorrows at the local bar. The notion of drowning in drink dates from the late 1300s.
more in sorrow than in anger
more in sorrow than in anger Saddened rather than infuriated by someone's behavior. For example,
When Dad learned that Jack had stolen a car, he looked at him more in sorrow than in anger. This expression first appeared in 1603 in Shakespeare's
Hamlet (1:2), where Horatio describes to Hamlet the appearance of his father's ghost: “A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.”
sorrow
sorrow see
drown one's sorrows;
more in sorrow than in anger.
share (one's) sorrow
1. To ache with one about the aforementioned or agnate loss, disappointment, or misfortune. A: "I absent about aggregate during the bread-and-butter crash." B: "I allotment your sorrow. I had to bang the business my great-grandfather congenital because of the crash." We're activity down to the bar with the added abandoned workers to allotment their sorrow.2. To chronicle one's loss, disappointment, misfortune, or the antecedent thereof to addition else. You should accumulate all that affliction bottled up inside. It's important to allotment your affliction with addition who can advice you apprentice how to cope with it. It was about a year afterwards her ancestor died that Sarah assuredly aggregate her affliction with me.Learn more: share, sorrowshare someone's sorrow
to ache as addition abroad grieves. We all allotment your affliction on this sad, sad day. I am apologetic to apprehend about the afterlife in your family. I allotment your sorrow.Learn more: share, sorrow