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Vocabulary
IDIOMS WITH PARTS OF THE BODY
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 have one's heart in the right place = have good intentions.
His gifts are always tacky, but he has his heart in the right place. - 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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Exercise
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