Brewer's: Eat One's Heart Out

(To). To fret or worry unreasonably; to allow one grief or one vexation to predominate over the mind, tincture all one's ideas, and absorb all other emotions.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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