HEART Idioms: Common Idioms with Heart in English

List of useful HEART idioms with meaning and examples in English.

Learn more with list of common body idioms in English.

Table of Contents

• Useful Heart Idioms in English
  • After One’s Own Heart
  • Bare One’s Heart (Soul)
  • Change of Heart
  • Eat Your Heart Out! (excl.)
  • Follow Your Heart
  • From the Bottom of One’s Heart
  • In a Heart beat
  • Touch One’s Heart
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Useful Heart Idioms in English

After One’s Own Heart

• Meaning: Similar in a pleasing way
  
• Example: You’re a woman after my own heart – few people like Irish food, but I know you’ll always go out for bangers and mash with me.
  
  

Bare One’s Heart (Soul)

• Meaning: To confess one’s deepest secrets
  
• Example: Last night my girlfriend bared her soul and told me about her difficult childhood.
  
  

Change of Heart

• Meaning: A change in one’s opinion or outlook
  
• Example: I’ve had a change of heart – you can go ahead and go to the movie with your boyfriend, even though I told you you couldn’t.
  
  

Eat Your Heart Out! (excl.)

• Meaning: Go ahead, be jealous.
  
• Example: My dad is buying me a new car. Eat your heart out!
  
  

Follow Your Heart

• Meaning: Rely on one’s deeper feelings and instincts when making a decision
  
• Example: Yes, you might make less money that job, but if it really attracts you, you should follow your heart.
  
  

From the Bottom of One’s Heart

• Meaning: Sincerely and with deep feeling
  
• Example: I want to tell you from the bottom of my heart how much I appreciate your help.
  
  

In a Heart beat

• Meaning: Immediately.
  
• Example: This is especially used in hypothetical situations. If Joe asked me, I’d marry him in a heart beat!
  
  

Touch One’s Heart

• Meaning: Affect someone emotionally, be touching
  
• Example: It really touches my heart to see so many starving children and not be able to do anything about it.