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HEART

• to have the heart to do something = be unfeeling enough to do something.
  I hadn't the heart to refuse.
• to have one's heart in one's mouth = be badly frightened.
  I was alone and when the lights went out, I had my heart in my mouth!
• to do something to one's heart's content = do something as much as one wishes.
  There will be lots of food, so you'll be able to eat to your heart's content.
• to learn/know something by heart = from memory.
  He knows the poem by heart.
• to lose heart = become discouraged.
  She had so many job refusals that she's beginning to lose heart.
• to set one's heart on something = want something very much.
  She had set her heart on becoming a policewoman.
• to take something to heart = be much affected or upset by something.
  I took your criticism very much to heart.
• at heart = in one's real nature.
  I'm a country girl at heart.
• from the bottom of one's heart = sincerely.
  This advice comes from the bottom of my heart.
• after one's own heart = of exactly the type one likes best.
  He likes good wine too, he's obviously a man after my own heart.
• a heart of gold = a very kind nature.
  He looks bad-tempered but really he's got a heart of gold.
• a heart of stone = a pitiless and unfeeling nature.
  He doesn't care about others, he's got a heart of stone.

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