Heart hurt words heal slowly.

Meaning: This means that hurtful words can cause emotional pain that takes a long time to heal.

Choice of Words: Heart means the center of your emotions, hurt means to cause pain, words are things you say or write, and heal means to make something better. Slowly means taking a long time.

Alternative Expressions

Ouch! Those words sting like a bee.

Meaning: This means that the hurtful words caused a lot of emotional pain, like a bee sting.

Choice of Words: Ouch is an exclamation used to express sudden pain. Sting is a verb that means to cause a sharp pain with a needle or stinger. Bee is a flying insect that produces honey and has a painful sting. When you put them together, "Ouch! Those words sting like a bee" is a way to describe the sharp emotional pain caused by hurtful words.

Your words cut me like a knife.

Meaning: This means that the hurtful words caused a lot of emotional pain, like a deep cut from a knife.

Choice of Words: Cut is a verb that means to separate or divide with a sharp object. Knife is a sharp object used for cutting. When you put them together, "Your words cut me like a knife" is a way to describe the deep emotional pain caused by hurtful words.

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