Nuance Dictionary / Social Situations
속이 터지다 Sok-i teo-ji-da
When watching someone's painfully slow, clueless, or stubborn behavior makes your insides feel ready to burst from absolute frustration.
What does 속이 터지다 mean?
속이 터지다 (Sok-i teo-ji-da) means: When watching someone's painfully slow, clueless, or stubborn behavior makes your insides feel ready to burst from absolute frustration.
Because standard reference materials do not list this specific expression, its exact distribution and common collocations are not formally documented.
Among speakers, this is often used in casual settings when watching someone struggle with a simple task or repeatedly make the same obvious mistake, conveying a sense of exasperated impatience.
Among speakers, this is often used in casual settings when watching someone struggle with a simple task or repeatedly make the same obvious mistake, conveying a sense of exasperated impatience.
Other sides of 속이 터지다
◆ Bottled-Up Frustration — Speakers use this expression to describe the physical sensation of heat and constriction in the chest caused by suppressed frustration. It typically appears in situations where someone must swallow their words or endure an unjust circumstance without immediate recourse. It frequently combines with descriptions of feeling blocked or suffocated by external constraints.
Among casual speakers, this often conveys a vivid sense of suppressed anger that feels almost physically unbearable, as if the chest might literally burst from holding back.
Among casual speakers, this often conveys a vivid sense of suppressed anger that feels almost physically unbearable, as if the chest might literally burst from holding back.
🎙️ 속이 터지다는 표기 그대로 읽지 않아요 — 실제로는 [소기 터지다]로 소리나요 (연음법칙). 발음 연습하기 →
How it's actually used
- 일하는 게 너무 답답해서 속이 터지다 못해 폭발할 것 같아요.
il-ha-neun ge neomu dap-dab-hae-seo sog-i teo-ji-da mot-hae pok-bal-hal geot gat-a-yo.
Working like this is so frustrating my insides feel ready to burst.
💡 A speaker expressing extreme frustration at slow or inefficient work. - 저 사람 행동을 보고 있으면 속이 터져서 참을 수가 없어요.
jeo sa-ram haeng-dong-eul bo-go isseu-myeon sog-i teo-jyeo-seo cham-eul su-ga eobs-eo-yo.
Watching the way that person acts makes my insides burst; I just can't stand it.
💡 A speaker reacting to someone's stubborn or clueless behavior. - 답답하게 말을 안 하니까 속이 터지겠네.
dap-dab-hae-seog mal-eul an ha-ni-kka sog-i teo-ji-get-ne.
You're being so frustratingly quiet, my insides are about to burst.
💡 A speaker reacting to someone withholding information or failing to speak up.
Related words in Social Situations
손에 쥐다 son-e jwida손에 땀을 쥐다 Son-e ttam-eul jwida손을 놓다 Son-eul noh-da손을 벌리다 Soneul beollida손이 크다 soni keuda