心如刀割

- feel as if a knife were piercing one's heart; be touched to the quick; be torn with grief; feel as though a knife has been plunged into one's heart; like a dagger had cut deep into one's heart; One's heart feels as if transfixed with a dagger.; One's heart felt as if it had been stabbed.; One's heart contracted in pain as if stabbed by a knife.; One feels as though one's heart were cut in many pieces.