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open heart

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open your heart
to tell someone your secret thoughts and feelings (often + to ) That night, she opened her heart to me and I think that's when I fell in love with her.
See open old wounds, push at an open door
See also: heart, open
open your heart
to show or tell your true feelings and thoughts It is easier to open my heart to Dad in a letter than to speak to him face to face.
See also: heart, open
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You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate; but the latter was an austere and wise man: and therefore it seems (though rarely) that love can find entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
With the utmost speed he could exert, he settled his affairs; converted into money all the goods he had; and, with honourable wealth enough for both, with open heart and hand, with limbs that trembled as they bore him on, with emotion such as men can hardly bear and live, arrived one evening at his brother's door
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