HEART: idioms + [advanced]
Noun
devastating sorrow and despair, especially from disappointment in love
crosses his path
The storyline revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
The storyline revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
Adjective
filled with great sadness
heartbroken
A bad breakup is hard to get over, but by the time you're ready to expose your ravaged heart to an aching ballad, you're not heartbroken so much as pre-healing.
A bad breakup is hard to get over, but by the time you're ready to expose your ravaged heart to an aching ballad, you're not heartbroken so much as pre-healing.
Noun
an attractive and usually famous man
heartthrob
Hate him or love him, you can’t ignore this baby. Justin Beiber struck gold after his number ‘Baby’ clinched positive reviews from critics and earned him a huge fan-following and the tag of teenage heartthrob.
Hate him or love him, you can’t ignore this baby. Justin Beiber struck gold after his number ‘Baby’ clinched positive reviews from critics and earned him a huge fan-following and the tag of teenage heartthrob.
Adjective
causing pleasant feelings of happiness
heartwarming
A heartwarming story of four sisters - Jo, Meg, Amy, Beth - and of the courage, humor, and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.
A heartwarming story of four sisters - Jo, Meg, Amy, Beth - and of the courage, humor, and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.
Phrase
make known one's thoughts and feelings
open her heart
Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life.
Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life.
Phrase
In a sad or miserable state
with a heavy heart
"It is with a heavy heart that I tell you today that the board of elections in Haiti has disqualified me from my run for the presidency of the country."
"It is with a heavy heart that I tell you today that the board of elections in Haiti has disqualified me from my run for the presidency of the country."