Tear at your heart

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Emotional Impact

Use it to express how something affects you or others emotionally, often by sadness.

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The documentary about climate change tears at your heart.

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Empathy Trigger

Ideal for describing events or stories that you expect to make others feel empathy.

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The nurse's tale of the aging veteran tears at your heart.

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Not Literal

The phrase is figurative and does not describe physical pain but deep emotional response.

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The sight of the abandoned pets tore at my heart.

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