Practice English

*30 Idioms with Heart*❤️❤️❤️❤️🙋‍♂️

Idioms that refer to what is the fanciful seat of our emotions as well as the factual core of our circulatory system are understandably numerous. Here’s a list of phrases and expressions that include heart and, for the most part, pertain to human feelings.

1. *a big heart*: said of someone kind and loving
2. *after my own heart*: said of someone with similar preferences or values
3. *a heart of gold*: see “a big heart”
4. *a heart of stone*: said of someone without sympathy
5. *all heart*: see “a big heart”; sometimes used sarcastically to mean the opposite
6. *at heart*: basically
7. *bare (one’s) heart*: share one’s feelings or thoughts
8. *bleeding heart*: said of someone who is conspicuously or excessively generous
9. *break (one’s) heart*: cause someone emotional distress
10. *by heart*: from memory
11–13. *capture/steal/win (one’s) heart*: make someone fall in love with one
14–16. *close/dear/near to (one’s) heart*: loved or valued by someone
17. *cross my heart*: said as an oath to assert one’s honesty
18. *didn’t have the heart*: said when one cannot summon the will to do something hurtful
19. *do (one’s) heart good*: said about something that will be beneficial to someone
20. *eat your heart out*: said mockingly to someone expressing the desire for them to suffer; usually facetious
21. *faint of heart*: lacking courage
22–23. *find a way into/to (one’s) heart*: cause someone to fall in love with one
24. *find it in (one’s) heart*: have the compassion or courage to do something
25. *follow (one’s) heart*: do what one loves rather than what is expected of one
26. *from the heart*: with sincerity
27–28. *gladden the/(one’s) heart*: make someone happy or gratified
29. *harden (one’s) heart*: become callous
30. *have (one’s) heart set on*: be obsessed with obtaining
31. *have (one’s) (best) interests at heart*: be doing something for someone else’s benefit

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Exercise

Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect or the present perfect continuous tense. ( in some cases either could be used. )

1- we ( walk ) ten kilometers

2- we ( walk ) for three hours .

3- how many you ( make ) ?
I ( make ) 200.

4- he ( not stop ) eating since he arrived .

5- The driver ( drink ) . I think someone else ought to drive .

Thanks a lot for your participation and good luck to all of you .

What is the present perfect Tense ?

In the present perfect tense , The action is complete or has ended and hence termed perfect . The exact time when the action happened is not important and hence , it is not mentioned in this tense . The present perfect is formed as follows : auxiliary have /has + verb in past participle form .

√ Example with positive statement :

Romaric has seen this movie .

√ Example with Negative statement :

Romaric has not seen this movie .

√ Example with interrogative statement :

Has Romaric seen this movie .

• What is the present perfect continuous tense ?

In the present perfect continuous tense, the action has been taking place for some time and is still ongoing . The duration for which the action has been going on is usually mentioned in the present perfect continuous tense. The present perfect continuous is formed according to this pattern: auxiliary have / has + been+ verb in ing form .
Example : i have been waiting for an our .