bleeding heart

Government bureaucrats are often depicted as wasteful and inefficient bleeding hearts with secret, sinister and sometimes "socialist" agendas.

Alimouri’s “bleeding heart” came from his father, who fled Iran after opposing both the shah and the country’s Islamic regime, finding work in the United States as a chauffeur.

Have San Francisco voters lost the bleeding hearts they have been known for — or are they just frustrated?

I come into the world with this sort of open, bleeding heart — I expose myself because I’m a romantic.

Vehicle residents opened up to Darsie, maybe because the retiree looked like a sweet old lady, said Adams, who once gave Darsie a “bleeding heart” plant to tend in her garden.