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heart-to-heart

heart-to-heart

18 4.1
A private, serious talk to share feelings or problems
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑrt tə ˈhɑrt/
  • Informal
translation icon : conversación sincera
  • After weeks of misunderstanding, we finally had a heart-to-heart about our feelings.
  • a heart-to-heart talk
  • a heart-to-heart conversation
  • a heart-to-heart chat

Today it's time for a heart to heart.

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Examples

  • Mom and me are trying to have a heart-to-heart.

    CrissCross (1992)

  • We're having a heart-to-heart.

    Funky Monkey (2004)

  • We had a real heart to heart.

    Landmine Goes Click (2015)

  • And so when you are having this heart to heart conversation, you are really sharing a part of you with that person.

  • Have a heart-to-heart with your boy.

    The Cutter (2005)

  • All the more reason to be having this little heart-to-heart.

    The Ice Storm (1997)

  • I just wanted to come down here myself and, you know, have a little heart-to-heart.

    Cruel Will (2013)

  • You and I are going to have a real heart-to-heart.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • When did you last have a heart-to-heart talk with Dev?

    The Cobweb (1955)

  • Why don't you get with her, have a heart-to-heart talk, and see if you can't work things out?

    Fiction book (2000)

Antonyms

superficial
94 5.6

Not thorough and only about what is obvious, not deep

idle talk
1 5.8

Casual talk about small, unimportant things, often gossip

How Intimate

heart-to-heart
  • Informal
18 4.1
real talk
  • Slang
9 7.7
talk
947 1.0
to chat
  • Informal
269 1.0
small talk
  • Informal
65 2.1

Surface Forms

heart-to-heart singular
heart-to-hearts plural

Etymology

The word heart-to-heart comes from the idea of one heart talking to another, like giving your true feelings 'from the heart'. So a heart-to-heart is a private, serious talk about feelings.