February 14 is St. Valentine's Day; a day when lovers express their love for each other by giving flowers, gifts, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").
In honour of St. Valentine's Day, here are 5 idioms which use the word heart. These are not examples of romantic idioms. The heart idioms cover a number of situations.
by heart
When you learn something by heart, you learn it exactly and from memory.
"She remembers all of her friend's telephone numbers by heart."
with half a heart
When you do something with not enough effort or enthusiasm, you do it with half a heart.
"Because he was feeling so tired he worked with half a heart for most of the day. "
have your heart in your mouth
When you feel very nervous about something, your heart is in your mouth.
"My heart was in my mouth as my teacher read out our exam results."
heart out
When you something your heart out, you do it very strongly/extremely.
"She cried her heart out when her boyfriend broke up with her."
"She sang her heart out at the karaoke bar last night."
a heart-to-heart
When you have a heart-to-heart, you talk to someone honestly and openly about your feelings.
"My relationship with James has been much better since we had our heart-to-heart last week."
Now use these idioms in your own example sentences.
Link: Culture Lesson: 'White Day' in Japan
Comments
Nice heart idioms
Nice idioms thanks Chris, we are learning a lot here.
By planting trees people are expressing their heart out the love for their land in Sindh.
I think we should all today plant trees and express our love for the mother land. Its an amazing gift to earth.
We have similar idioms in Arabic
We have similar idioms in Arabic but with some differences. For example, ‘have your hand on your heart’ used for similar situations as ‘have your heart in your mouth’
Happy St. Valentine's Day
Excellent idioms!!! I like them!
We also have the similar idiom - have your heart in your mouth - HAVE YOUR HEART IN YOUR HEELS!( when you feel nervous or terrified)
When I read your valentine my heart was in my mouth.
I'll learn all these idioms by heart!
Thank you for the Lesson!
We can't learning these
We can't learning these idioms only by heart , rather to use them heart out in conversations and to write short stories where they will used. It works!
If you see that your colleague works today with half of heart, keep your lips sealed - he, for sure,have a problem.Talk with him later heart-to-heart.
Heart idioms
My examples:
and I got up and started to prepare to work with half a heart.
1) At school I had to learn a lot of lyrics and poetry by heart and it has helped me to develop and make my memory better.
2) Waking up in the morning today, I remembered that it's Monday
3) They all had been having their hearts in their mouth until a nurse came and said that Jenny gave birth to a son.
4) She laughed her heart out watching an old Charlie Chaplin's film.
5) He often has heart-to-heart conversations with his wife that's why their relationships are so warm and strong.
Thank you, Chris.
heart idioms
*I wasn't cleared in my last year's exam, i might have been read with half a heart ......that may be the reason
*my heart is in my mouth as my result gonna be declared on the day after tommorrow
Thanx Chris
have one's heart in one's mouth
Hi,
"half a heart" is close to "half an hour" by structure :) BTW, in our language we use "half a jaw" word-for-word for the same meaning))
The group danced their hearts out.
I did the everyday routine yesterday with half a heart.
I am going to have a hart-to-heart with my friend very soon.
I have my heart in my mouth every time I think of the coming exam.
To learn these expressions by heart it is very important to revise them!
Thanks for the lesson :)