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Catchword for “heartsink”

Catchword: heartsink

Filed Under: English, Health, Medical

Part of Speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: The patients that dismay me the most are the ones I see a lot whom I can’t help. We call them heartsink patients, for obvious reasons, and someone once reckoned that most partners in practice have about fifty heartsinks on their books.

Author:
Nick Hornby

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
How to Be Good

Date of Publication:
Aug. 1, 2001

Page Number:
128

This cite belongs to a full entry for heartsink.

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