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bleeding hearts

n. (plural of bleeding heart English)

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Bleeding Hearts
  • This article is about the novel. For the plant known as Bleeding Hearts, see Dicentra spectabilis.

Bleeding Hearts is a 1994 crime novel by Ian Rankin, under the pseudonym Jack Harvey. It is the second novel he wrote under this name.

Usage examples of "bleeding hearts".

Some of the really big pot hunters hire bodyguards, goon squads, to help take care of the bleeding hearts, and even the local law.

My people worship me as a living god of war who delights in blood and offerings of bleeding hearts.

He done it and then got a bunch of white nigger bleeding hearts from town to lie him up and threaten Butch with state prison if he didn't pay that nigger off.

Most of the bleeding hearts hadn't made the mistake of helping his wife, however .

It was pretty much rampant behavior, though, because most of the bleeding hearts got away with it.