heartstrings
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- noun
- /ˈhɑrtˌstrɪŋz/
- Informal
- Great cast, great storylines, pulls at your heartstrings because it's set in the old school era.
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Watch on YouTubeIt'll pull on your heartstrings to try to get you to send money.
- It'll pull on your heartstrings to try to get you to send money.
- And for me to have tugged on those heartstrings, it's, I mean, it kills me.
- Laughing at my metaphor that actually taps into the heartstrings of all American people.
- Great cast, great storylines, pulls at your heartstrings because it's set in the old school era.
- Haley became an unwilling accomplice when Brittany showed her a picture that pulled at Haley's heartstrings.
- Smart Ploy tug at our heartstrings by making us nostalgic for the bygone pastime of traveling anywhere.
- And that pity can confuse you because it can feel so much like love, a sort of pulling at the heartstrings.
- And with this particular skill of telling a compelling story with surprise, delight, a little humor, hopefully a little tugging at the heartstrings.
- Movie I love great movie, heartstring movie, right?
- But that Greece story I could tell that hit the heartstrings of you.
- But so my my heartstrings about, you know, women's issues kind of overrode there.
- You know, just like like like a perfect example, and this might talk a couple more heartstrings.
Examples
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Laughing at my metaphor that actually taps into the heartstrings of all American people.
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It'll pull on your heartstrings to try to get you to send money.
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And for me to have tugged on those heartstrings, it's, I mean, it kills me.
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These were these were hymns sort of designed to tug at your heartstrings, to get you to feel a certain way.
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But so my my heartstrings about, you know, women's issues kind of overrode there.
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Clothing really tugs on those same heartstrings and makeup is just pure color pigment.
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And the tug of the heartstrings tells you to spend it on treatments, but maximizing the good tells you to spend it on prevention.
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Smart Ploy tug at our heartstrings by making us nostalgic for the bygone pastime of traveling anywhere.
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The movie was so touching that it tugged on my heartstrings and brought tears to my eyes.
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She wrote a heartfelt letter that truly touched my heartstrings and made me feel loved.
Synonyms
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1.8
The center of a person's feelings, like love or courage
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5.2
Deep feelings that strongly affect someone
Antonyms
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Morphology
heartstrings = heartstring (semi-transparent) = heart + string + s
The singular compound 'heartstring' is a metaphorical combination of 'heart' + 'string' whose figurative meaning ('deep emotions') is plausible from the parts but requires metaphorical inference.
Etymology
Heartstrings joins heart (your 'feelings') and strings (like the strings on a guitar or a puppet) to create a picture of something you can 'tug' to make a strong feeling. So, when something 'tugs your heartstrings' it means it touches your deepest feelings.