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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

To have a heart crushed by a proxy?

Hello. I wonder what the sentence means - having it looked up it doesn't seem as an idiom; anyway, I don't know what the "proxy" is supposed to mean in there. Could you, please, explain? Thank you in advance.
  

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The only thing I can think of is marriage by proxy. Suppose you want to get married but your beloved cannot be present. A proxy stands in for him or her, and the marriage is official.

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  • The only thing I can think of is marriage by proxy.
  • Suppose you want to get married but your beloved cannot be present.
  • A proxy stands in for him or her, and the marriage is official.
  • I suppose that the proxy could crush your heart - perhaps you fell in love with them instead of your actual husband / wife.
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The only thing I can think of is marriage by proxy.

Suppose you want to get married but your beloved cannot be present. A proxy stands in for him or her, and the marriage is official. I suppose that the proxy could crush your heart - perhaps you fell in love with them instead of your actual husband / wife.
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Hi,

No,it's not an idiom or a set expression.

Tom had his heart crushed by a proxy.
Maybe his girl-friend sent her sister to tell him that she no longer loved him.
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@Clive The context was near to none; it was rather a sentence similar to the one you just used.
Thanks to both of you, I think it makes a sense now.
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Hi,

I am amazed every day by the odd sentences that learners of English find to ask us about!
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