bad/hard/tough luck
used for saying that you have no sympathy for someone’s difficulty
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Ways of expressing lack of sympathy
too bad
used for showing that you are not sympathetic at all or you do not really care what someone else thinks
my heart bleeds (for someone)
used for saying that you feel sympathy for someone. This phrase is usually used in a humorous way to show that, in fact, you do not feel any sympathy at all.
tough shit
used for saying that you have no sympathy for someone
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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