###*32 Idioms with Heart*###

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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. Here’s a list of phrases and expressions that include heart and, for the most part, pertain to human feelings.

  1. a big heart: said of someone kind and loving
  2. after my own heart: said someone with similar preferences or values
  3. a heart of gold: see “a big heart”
  4. a heart of stone: said someone without sympathy
  5. all heart: see “a big heart”; sometimes used sarcastically to mean the opposite
  6. at heart: basically
  7. bare (one’s) heart: share one’s feelings or thoughts
  8. bleeding heart: said of someone who is conspicuously or excessively generous
  9. break (one’s) heart: cause someone emotional distress
  10. by heart: from memory
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11 to 13. capture/steal/win (one’s) heart: make someone fall in love with one
14 to 16. close/dear/near to (one’s) heart: loved or valued by someone

  1. cross my heart: said an oath to assert one’s honesty
  2. didn’t have the heart: said when one cannot summon the will to do something hurtful
  3. do (one’s) heart good: said about something that will be beneficial to someone
  4. eat your heart out: said mockingly to someone expressing the desire for them to suffer; usually facetious
  5. faint of heart: lacking courage
    22–23. find a way to/ too (one’s) heart: cause someone to fall in love with one
  6. find it in (one’s) heart: have the compassion or courage to do something
  7. follow (one’s) heart: do what one loves rather than what is expected of one
  8. from the heart: with sincerity
    27–28. gladden the/(one’s) heart: make someone happy or gratified
  9. harden (one’s) heart: become callous
  10. have (one’s) heart set on: be obsessed with obtaining
  11. have (one’s) (best) interests at heart: be doing something for someone else’s benefit
  12. heart goes out to: said in regard to feeling sympathy for someone
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