![]() have (one’s) (best) interests at heart: be doing something for someone else’s benefitģ2. have (one’s) heart set on: be obsessed with obtainingģ1. gladden the/(one’s) heart: make someone happy or gratifiedģ0. follow (one’s) heart: do what one loves rather than what is expected of oneĢ7–28. find it in (one’s) heart: have the compassion or courage to do somethingĢ5. find a way into/to (one’s) heart: cause someone to fall in love with oneĢ4. eat your heart out: said mockingly to someone expressing the desire for them to suffer usually facetiousĢ2–23. do (one’s) heart good: said about something that will be beneficial to someoneĢ0. didn’t have the heart: said when one cannot summon the will to do something hurtfulġ9. cross my heart: said as an oath to assert one’s honestyġ8. close/dear/near to (one’s) heart: loved or valued by someoneġ7. capture/steal/win (one’s) heart: make someone fall in love with oneġ4–16. break (one’s) heart: cause someone emotional distressġ1–13. bleeding heart: said of someone who is conspicuously or excessively generousĩ. bare (one’s) heart: share one’s feelings or thoughtsĨ. all heart: see “a big heart” sometimes used sarcastically to mean the oppositeħ. a heart of stone: said of someone without sympathyĥ. ![]() after my own heart: said of someone with similar preferences or valuesĤ. a big heart: said of someone kind and lovingĢ. Here’s a list of phrases and expressions that include heart and, for the most part, pertain to human feelings.ġ. Origination of this idiomatic expression in the comment section below.Idioms that refer to what is the fanciful seat of our emotions as well as the factual core of our circulatory system are understandably numerous. Kindly share your thoughts or information regarding the And that was the possible time when the expression originated. ![]() One another popular theory says that the ancient Greek philosopher, Archimedes, mistakenly believed that the brain pumps blood, while the heart works to think and feel. The heart is considered by people as the container that fills up with emotions so whenever “from the bottom” is said it means that the heart started to fill from the bottom, where it naturally remains fullest and reserved. ![]() Whenever people are hurt or emotional, they feel pain and pressure in the lowest portion of the heart. The phrase “from the bottom of someone’s heart” is used to express sincere emotions.
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