A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

Munia Khan
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A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed, an expression that is sometimes used to refer to the pain of being wounded by the loss of someone or something. This expression has been used in English since at least the late 1300s. The word torpid derives from the Latin torpor, which means “state of being dull, listless, sluggish, inactive, sluggishness.” The phrase “a pen to bleed” was first recorded in the sixteenth century. It has also been used in American English since at least the mid-1800s.

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