Смысл: sympathy

sympathy[ʹsımpəθı]
n
<Í> 1. симпатия, расположение
to feel a sympathy for smb. - симпатизировать кому-л.
to be in sympathy with smb.'s ideas - симпатизировать чьим-л. идеям
I know you are in sympathy with them - я знаю, что вы на их стороне
you have my sympathies, my sympathies are with you - я за вас, я на вашей стороне; мои симпатии на вашей стороне [ср. тж. 3]
popular sympathies are on his side - общественное мнение на его стороне
2. 1) взаимное понимание; родство душ
to be in sympathy with smb. - быть в полном согласии с кем-л. [ср. тж. 4]
to be out of sympathy with smb. - быть /находиться/ в разладе с кем-л. [ср. тж. 4]
we are out of sympathy - мы перестали понимать /не понимаем/ друг друга
2) солидарность
to strike in sympathy - бастовать /объявить забастовку/ в знак солидарности
3. сочувствие, сострадание
a man of wide sympathies - отзывчивый человек
a letter of sympathy - письмо с выражением соболезнования
to stir up sympathy - вызывать сочувствие /сострадание/
to have no sympathy for /with/ smb. - не испытывать сострадания к кому-л., не жалеть кого-л.
you have my sympathies - я вам сочувствую [ср. тж. 1]
accept my deep sympathy - примите моё глубокое соболезнование
4. соответствие; гармония
a sympathy in years - соответствие в годах /возрастов/
(to be) in sympathy with smth. - (быть) в (полном) соответствии с чем-л. [ср. тж. 2, 1)]
prices go up in sympathy with demand - цены поднимаются в соответствии со спросом
to be out of sympathy with smth. - не соответствовать чему-л. [ср. тж. 2, 1)]

tea and sympathy Идиома

extend one's sympathy

Idiom(s): extend one's sympathy (to sb)

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to express sympathy to someone. (A very polite and formal way to tell someone that you are sorry about a misfortune.)
• Please permit me to extend my sympathy to you and your children. I'm very sorry to hear of the death of your husband.
• Let's extend our sympathy to Bill Jones, who is in the hospital with a broken leg. We should send him some flowers.

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v. phr. To offer one's condolences on the occasion of a death or similarly tragic event. All of Tom's colleagues extended their sympathy to him when his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident.

tea and sympathy

A admiring affectation of accord for one who is upset. The angel is that of one accouterment a cup of tea to addition to allay them while alert to their troubles. I apperceive you accept a lot activity on, but the atomic you can do is action Hannah a little tea and accord during her time of grief.Learn more: and, sympathy, tea

tea and sympathy

accommodation and alleviation offered to a afflicted person.Learn more: and, sympathy, tea

TLC

Acronym for tender admiring care. In avant-garde times this byword is believed to accept originated in a hospital or added sick-care setting, area it alludes to affectionate and anxious analysis by nurses. From the mid-1900s on it bent on in a added accepted way, decidedly amid songwriters, according to columnist Nigel Rees, who begin about a dozen songs with this appellation accounting amid 1960 and 1983. Today the term, both spelled out and abbreviated, is activated to affectionate or affable analysis for about anything—a pet, person, plant, automobile, and so on. It has aloof about replaced the about alike tea and sympathy, meaning appropriate affection apparent to addition who is upset. This appellation was consistently best accepted in Britain, area a cup of tea is accepted analysis in such situations. It acquired bill as the appellation of a comedy by Robert Anderson and a motion account based on it (1956) about a basic academy boy’s activity with a teacher’s wife, but it has abundantly died out, at atomic in America.

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