сгорать от стыда

• СГОРАТЬ/СГОРЕТЬ СО <ОТ> СТЫДА coll

[VP; subj: human; often impfv Verbal Adv сгорая; if pfv-often subjunctive or past with чуть не]

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⇒ to experience intense shame, embarrassment:

- X сгорал со стыда{{}}≈ X was burning (up) with shame;

- X was dying <nearly died> of shame;

- X was embarrassed to death;

- X was bitterly ashamed of himself.

     ♦ [extended usage] Зина повела его [пса] гулять на цепи... Пёс шел как арестант, сгорая от стыда... (Булгаков 11). Zina took him [the dog] walking on the chain. ...He walked like a convict, burning up with shame (11a).

     ♦ [Иванов:] Перед тобою стоит человек, в тридцать пять лет уже утомлённый, разочарованный, раздавленный своими ничтожными подвигами; он сгорает со стыда... (Чехов 4). [I.:] You see a man exhausted at the age of thirty-five, disillusioned, crushed by his own pathetic efforts, bitterly ashamed of himself... (4b).