heart of hearts
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6.1
- idiom
- Literature
:
lo más profundo del corazón
- But in my heart of hearts, I knew the truth.
But in our heart of hearts, we know we'll be OK.
- But in our heart of hearts, we know we'll be OK.
- Now, I'm a scientist and intrinsically in my heart of hearts, I'm a skeptic.
- Most of those people genuinely in their heart of hearts believe that they're doing something good for the country.
- But fundamentally, in their deepest heart of hearts, these white people don't really like us too much.
- If you know in your heart of hearts that you should do something, then guess what?
- We accept it as if it's something true when we know in our heart of hearts that that's not really the case.
- I think initially, yes, but I guess I always knew in my heart of hearts that I'd need something stimulating to be doing.
- I genuinely, in my heart of hearts, believe Kami Abraham's going to get it.
- And when you really know in your heart of hearts that you're here for something bigger and you've found it, there's no stopping.
- They didn't know it was for you is what in your heart of hearts matters to you.
Examples
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I think in her heart of hearts, she kind of wanted to get caught.
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But in our heart of hearts, we know we'll be OK.
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Ask yourself, in your heart of hearts, are you worth what you charge?
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But I know in my heart of hearts that we did get in trouble.
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If you know in your heart of hearts that you should do something, then guess what?
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And you, in your heart of hearts, know you could be out there, too.
Fiction book (1995) -
In your heart of hearts, you know the plain and simple truth.
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In my heart of hearts, I know that you don't want that either.
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For Raed knew in his heart of hearts that he was actually seeing his daughter now.
Fiction book (2002) -
In my heart of hearts, I believe that kindness will always triumph over hate.
Synonyms
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1.8
The center of a person's feelings, like love or courage
15
5.2
Deep feelings that strongly affect someone
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7.0
Deep feelings of love or sympathy that make you feel moved
Antonyms
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
The central metaphor of 'heart' as the seat of emotions makes the basic idea of 'deepest feelings' reasonably inferable from the constituents, so a learner who knows 'heart' and 'of' can guess the general meaning. However, the doubled form 'heart of hearts' is a fixed idiomatic intensifier with a specific nuance (innermost, not openly acknowledged) that is not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Heart of hearts may come from the image of a small heart hidden deep inside another heart, like a tiny room in the very center. So it now means 'a person's deepest true feelings'.