to have a heart
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4.2
- idiom
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mostrar compasión
- If you see someone struggling, please have a heart and offer to help.
- have a heart of gold
There is no one who has a heart as pure.
- There is no one who has a heart as pure.
- Most of us have a heart that says, I got to let them slide.
- He's certainly a decent, a decent human being who who has a heart and is capable of compassion.
- But if you're no, if you're if you're if you're young and right wing, you don't have a heart.
- But I feel like when the world is burning down, Eric is one of the people that's you can still count on to have a heart.
- Hearts don't idle, they swell and constrict and break and forgive and behold, because it's like this, having a heart.
- Because she cries every time and I have a heart.
- And like I'll read like reviews, people be like, oh, I cried and I'm like, do I have a heart?
- In fact, you don't have to have a heart at all, just a wallet.
- And thankfully, he also had a heart for things less conventional.
- This grumpy old man who has a heart of gold.
- And a friend of mine said this and he said so well, he said having a heart for the poor, that's easy.
Examples
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And he said, Jamal, make sure you always have a heart for the people.
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Have a heart, Waldo.
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Come on, have a heart.
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We have a heart for you.
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You have a heart as big as that castle, and I love you for it.
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Don't any of you animals have a heart?
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Come on, Killian, have a heart.
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Please have a heart and don't destroy our family!
Blog text (24) -
My dear Sonic, you have a heart like no creature I've ever known.
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Have a heart.
Synonyms
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1.0
To feel that someone or something matters to you
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3.5
To feel or show care and understanding for someone who is unhappy
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7.7
To be able to do something difficult because you feel kind or brave
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3.9
To care about someone or something and want to help them
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5.5
To understand and share someone's sadness when they are having a hard time
Antonyms
How Compassionate
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4.2
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning follows a conventional metaphor (heart = compassion), so a learner who knows 'have' and 'heart' can plausibly infer 'possess compassion' and thus 'show kindness.' However the sense is a conventionalized metaphorical extension rather than strictly compositional, so it is not fully transparent despite helpful cross-linguistic parallels.
Etymology
The idiom have a heart comes from the old idea that the heart is where feelings and kindness live, so telling someone to have a heart asks them to feel pity and be kind. That's why it now means 'to show compassion'.