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have a heart
Idioms and Phrases
Be merciful, show pity; also, be reasonable. For example, Have a heart—I can't pay you back until next month , or Have a heart and stop your arguing now . This expression is often put as an imperative, as in the examples. [c. 1900] Also see harden one's heart .Example Sentences
"I shouldn't be seen as a man who doesn't want peace. I have a heart, a family, and people I care about," he said.
In 2021, after all possible treatments had been tried, she chose to have a heart patch.
“Normally, I’m the kind of person where if an emergency happens, I know what to do. If you have a heart attack, an aneurysm, if someone gets shot or if the earth starts to shake — most things, I know what to do. But this particular situation, I’ve never had something like this happen.”
"I would have this feeling of 'oh my gosh, I'm going to die, I'm going to have a heart attack, this is it, this is my time'," she said.
“What is the cost to you if you develop cardiovascular disease and have a heart attack, and we can trace it back to your exposure to this emission?”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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