put heart into

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put one's heart (and soul) into something

Fig. to put all of one's sincere efforts into something. She put her heart and soul into the singing of the national anthem. Come on, choir. You can sing better than that. Put your heart into it!

See also: heart, put

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In the meantime I will go to Ithaca, to put heart into Ulysses' son Telemachus; I will embolden him to call the Achaeans in assembly, and speak out to the suitors of his mother Penelope, who persist in eating up any number of his sheep and oxen; I will also conduct him to Sparta and to Pylos, to see if he can hear anything about the return of his dear father--for this will make people speak well of him. The Odyssey by Homer View in context At the same time they furnished his regained humanity with some decent clothing, and put heart into the new man by the information that the seacoast of the Pacific was only a very few miles away. Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph View in context That put heart into me, I can tell you; and the lady told me then not to disturb her son. The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context			put down roots put down to put down to experience put eye out put face on put feet up put finger on put flesh on put foot down put foot in it put foot in mouth put foot to the floor put forth put forward put hair on chest put hair up put hand in pocket put hand on heart put hand to the plow put hand up put hands on put head above the parapet put head on the block put heads together put heart and soul into put heart into put house in order put ideas into head put in a good word put in a good word for put in a hard day at work put in a hole put in a nutshell put in an appearance put in an awkward position put in head put in in two penn'orth put in jeopardy put in layaway put in mind of put in mothballs put in motion put in order put in place put in print put in quotes put in service put in some place put in the picture put in the shade put in the way of			put hand to the plow put hand up put hands on put hands on put hands on put hands on put hands on put hands together put hands together put hands together put hands together put hands up put hands up put hands up put hands up put head above the parapet put head down put head in a noose put head on the block put head on the block put head on the block put head on the block put head on the block put head on the block put heads together put heads together put heads together put heads together put heads together put heart and soul into put heart into Put Him First put house in order put house in order put house in order put house in order put house in order put house in order Put i Putevoe Khoziaistvo put ideas into head put ideas into head put ideas into head put ideas into head put ideas into head put in put in put in put in put in put in a bad light put in a cell put in a claim for put in a conspicuous place put in a good word put in a good word for put in a hard day at work put in a hard day's work put in a hole put in a nutshell put in accord put in action

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