Heart Idioms and Expressions for ESL Students! Learn a list of common idioms related to Heart with meaning and examples in English with ESL infographic.
Idioms Related to Heart
Heart Idioms
A big heart
- Meaning: Said of someone kind and loving
After my own heart
- Meaning: Said of someone with similar preferences or values
A heart of stone
- Meaning: Said of someone without sympathy
Bare (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Share one’s feelings or thoughts
Bleeding heart
- Meaning: Said of someone who is conspicuously or excessively generous
Break (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Cause someone emotional distress
By heart
- Meaning: From memory
Capture/steal/win (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Make someone fall in love with one
Close/dear/near to (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Loved or valued by someone
Cross my heart
- Meaning: Said as an oath to assert one’s honesty
Didn’t have the heart
- Meaning: Said when one cannot summon the will to do something hurtful
Do (one’s) heart good
- Meaning: Said about something that will be beneficial to someone
Eat your heart out
- Meaning: Said mockingly to someone expressing the desire for them to suffer; usually facetious
Faint of heart
- Meaning: Lacking courage
Find a way into/to (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Cause someone to fall in love with one
Find it in (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Have the compassion or courage to do something
Follow (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Do what one loves rather than what is expected of one
From the heart
- Meaning: With sincerity
Gladden the/(one’s) heart
- Meaning: Make someone happy or gratified
Harden (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Become callous
Have (one’s) heart set on
- Meaning: Be obsessed with obtaining
Have (one’s) (best) interests at heart
- Meaning: Be doing something for someone else’s benefit
Heart goes out to
- Meaning: Said in regard to feeling sympathy for someone
Heart in (one’s) mouth
- Meaning: Said of someone who has strong emotions about someone or something
Heart is in the right place
- Meaning: Said of someone well-intentioned
Heart of the matter
- Meaning: Essence
Hearts and minds
- Meaning: Said in reference to persuading rather than compelling
Heart’s desire
- Meaning: What one wishes deeply for
Heart skips a beat
- Meaning: Said of someone excited, frightened, or surprised
Heavy heart
- Meaning: Sadness
From the bottom/depths of (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Profoundly
In (one’s) heart of hearts
- Meaning: If one’s true feelings or thoughts were known
Know (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Be aware of one’s true feelings
Lose heart
- Meaning: Become discouraged
Matters/affairs of the heart
- Meaning: Said of something pertaining to a love affair
Melt (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Cause someone to experience uncontrollable emotions
Nearly gave (one) a heart attack
- Meaning: Caused someone to feel anxiety or fear
(One’s) heart bleeds for
- Meaning: One is sympathetic
(One’s) heart is knocking
- Meaning: Said of someone excited or nervous
(One’s) heart is not in
- Meaning: One does not feel a commitment to or an interest in
(One’s) heart leaps
- Meaning: One is excited
(One’s) heart melts
- Meaning: See “melt someone’s heart”
(One’s) heart sinks
- Meaning: One becomes discouraged
Open (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Show generosity or kindness
Out of the goodness/kindness of (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Because of generosity or goodwill
Put (one’s) heart into
- Meaning: Do something with conviction or enthusiasm
Sick at heart
- Meaning: Discouraged
Strike fear into (one’s) heart/into the heart of (one)
- Meaning: Cause someone to be afraid
Take heart
- Meaning: Be encouraged
Take (something) to heart
- Meaning: Be affected by something
To (one’s) heart’s content
- Meaning: To the extent one desires
Warm (one’s)/the cockles of (one’s) heart
- Meaning: Cause someone to feel positive emotion
Wear (one’s) heart on (one’s) sleeve
- Meaning: Openly show one’s emotions
With a sinking heart
- Meaning: Said of someone who becomes discouraged or hopeless
With all (one’s) heart
- Meaning: With great enthusiasm
Young at heart
- Meaning: Youthful
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Shahanshah
Tuesday 12th of April 2022
What's the topic on which I have to discuss ?
Tawananyasha
Friday 2nd of October 2020
this is vey helpful,for I have a test next week