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to one's heart's content
Idioms and Phrases
To one's complete satisfaction, without limitation, as in I've been eating strawberries to my heart's content , or The youngsters played in the sand to their hearts' content . Shakespeare used this expression in a number of his plays. [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
So the omission of the passage of the widow, and also of the raven, is decidedly most advisable; and also the abridgment of the whole commencement, in order that the main points may be dwelt upon to one's heart's content.
We have found bully lodgings, spacious to one's heart's content, upon a cheerful square, and actually with a book-shelf fully two feet wide and two stories high, upon the wall, the first we have seen for two years!
They are sufficiently human to be typical, and then there's the advantage that one can stare at them to one's heart's content, without being thought ill-mannered.
I would go again to-morrow: wine and women to one's heart's content.
Yet one is hopeful, and lies counting the chances of there being larger fish in the water here, and of being able to fish to one’s heart’s content.
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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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