So ready for the new gym to open in Bennettsville ? I just made lil baby lemon cakes with a sugary lemon zest purée ? /4ipUmGBRIR Because some think the hands of the hugging face emoji resemble that dance move, they use the emoji to express excitement, such as upon a big reveal or ta-da moment. It serves you right! Talking about people who deserve bad things.In musical theater and dance, jazz hands are a kind of song-ending flourish of the hands, shaken with palms out and fingers outstretched.Losing and breaking your heart (Heart senses and phrases, Part 2).Sobbing or pouring your heart out (‘Heart’ senses and phrases, Part 3).
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In Part 3 of this series I’ll focus mainly on ‘heart’ phrases for expressing emotions.
To convey that we often feel the strongest love for people when they are not with us, we say Absence makes the heart grow fonder. The way to Tom’s heart is definitely through his stomach (=he will love you if you give him delicious food)! You sometimes hear people talking humorously about the way to someone’s heart, meaning ‘the way to make them love you’: It was there that she met the young man who would steal her heart. Another literary ‘heart’ phrase is to steal/win someone’s heart (=make them love you): The young widow was so broken-hearted that she never remarriedĪ slightly literary phrase that means ‘start to love someone’ is lose your heart to someone. He’ll break a few hearts when he’s older! She broke his heart when she left him for another man. (We also say that someone has a broken heart and that someone is broken-hearted): You might already know the idiom to break someone’s heart, meaning ‘to make someone very sad by stopping loving them’. Meanwhile, your heart’s desire is the thing that you want very much:Įventually, she got her heart’s desire, which was a house in the country.Īnd so to heart idioms and phrases that relate to love and romance. I started a law degree, but my heart just wasn’t in it. If you try to do something but your heart isn’t in it, you no longer care or feel interested enough to do it properly: For example, a subject that is dear/close to your heart is important to you and you feel strongly about it:Īffordable housing is a topic that’s very dear to my heart. If you ‘take heart’, you start to feel more hopeful and positive about a situation and if you ‘lose heart’, you feel discouraged and pessimistic:ĭemocrats will take heart from the poll which puts them slightly ahead of their rivals.ĭon’t lose heart just because you’ve had one rejection.Īnother group of ‘heart’ phrases conveys ideas about things that interest you. For example, there’s the sense of ‘hope and optimism’ in the phrases take heart and lose heart. Other meanings of ‘heart’ are found in phrases. The article cuts straight to the heart of the matter. Related, the heart of a particular subject is its most important and key part:Īt the heart of the dispute is a disagreement over territory. The heart is, of course, an essential organ in the body, providing a vital function. Similarly, we also use ‘heart’ for the softer, central part of some vegetables, especially those with many layers, such as lettuces, celery and artichokes: It has its headquarters in the heart of the capital. This was once the heart of the city’s busy retail sector. Just as the heart is located (more or less!) centrally in the body, the ‘heart’ of a place is the central part of it. In this post, I’ll consider various figurative senses of the word ‘heart’ and then focus on idioms and phrases that relate to love and romance. In Part 1 of this ‘heart’ series, I looked at common ‘heart’ idioms and phrases for saying that someone is kind.