Mar 17, 2016 20:03
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comió corazón
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Anyone know what this is. There is no more context other than it's corpus building project and there is no context. If someone could tell the possible country of origin of the speaker, that would be great as well. I want to think it's saying "broke my heart" or similar, but an find nothing to back that up with, perhaps, "eat your heart out"? Dunno
ya comió corazón
ya comió corazón
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| 3 | They ate their heart out |
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They ate their heart out
From what I can gather the expression belongs to Diogenes Laërtius.
Diogenes Laertius. Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Diogenēs Laertios; fl. c. 3rd century CE) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of Greek philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laërtius
In Spanish the book is called 'Vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres' and in English 'Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'.
https://books.google.es/books?id=-p9Pz2Co5koC&pg=RA1-PA129&l...
[18] This is what they meant. Don't stir the fire with a knife : don't stir the passions or the swelling pride of the great. Don't step over the beam of a balance : don't overstep the bounds of equity and justice. Don't sit down on your bushel : have the same care of to-day and the future, a bushel being the day's ration. By not eating your heart he meant not wasting your life in troubles and pains. By saying do not turn round when you go abroad, he meant to advise those who are departing this life not to set their hearts' desire on living nor to be too much attracted by the pleasures of this life. The explanations of the rest are similar and would take too long to set out.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...
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I've answered 'eat your heart out' because that's how I always heard it, meaning getting very upset about something.
Disputed. Three schools of thought exist:
Oh no! I've just read that it could come from the Bible!
From "This will eat your heart out.", suggesting that the recipient of the taunt will have their heart, the core of their being, eaten out with desire, bitterness, or pain.
From the 16th century "to eat one's own heart" (to suffer in silence from anguish or grief), possibly from the Bible "to eat one's own flesh" (to be lazy) The phrase "to eat one's heart out" appears as a formulaic phrase in the Iliad, meaning to experience extreme grief. (For instance, Iliad.24.128, many other locations.)
When used as the taunt "Eat your heart out, [someone]!" a suggestion that the recipient of the taunt "eat up" as much as they like. Figuratively more akin to "experience me besting you."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eat_one's_heart_out
Diogenes Laertius. Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Diogenēs Laertios; fl. c. 3rd century CE) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of Greek philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laërtius
In Spanish the book is called 'Vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres' and in English 'Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'.
https://books.google.es/books?id=-p9Pz2Co5koC&pg=RA1-PA129&l...
[18] This is what they meant. Don't stir the fire with a knife : don't stir the passions or the swelling pride of the great. Don't step over the beam of a balance : don't overstep the bounds of equity and justice. Don't sit down on your bushel : have the same care of to-day and the future, a bushel being the day's ration. By not eating your heart he meant not wasting your life in troubles and pains. By saying do not turn round when you go abroad, he meant to advise those who are departing this life not to set their hearts' desire on living nor to be too much attracted by the pleasures of this life. The explanations of the rest are similar and would take too long to set out.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...
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Note added at 23 hrs (2016-03-18 19:36:00 GMT)
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I've answered 'eat your heart out' because that's how I always heard it, meaning getting very upset about something.
Disputed. Three schools of thought exist:
Oh no! I've just read that it could come from the Bible!
From "This will eat your heart out.", suggesting that the recipient of the taunt will have their heart, the core of their being, eaten out with desire, bitterness, or pain.
From the 16th century "to eat one's own heart" (to suffer in silence from anguish or grief), possibly from the Bible "to eat one's own flesh" (to be lazy) The phrase "to eat one's heart out" appears as a formulaic phrase in the Iliad, meaning to experience extreme grief. (For instance, Iliad.24.128, many other locations.)
When used as the taunt "Eat your heart out, [someone]!" a suggestion that the recipient of the taunt "eat up" as much as they like. Figuratively more akin to "experience me besting you."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eat_one's_heart_out
Note from asker:
| Now that I'm further in, I can see most of this is really street talk, slang, I think Mexican. It's random messages on the internet. So literary references are probably not involved, although biblical ones might be. |
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