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put heart into

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put your heart (and soul) into something
to do something with all of your energy and interest. He wanted the restaurant to be a success and really put his heart into it.
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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.
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.
That put heart into me, I can tell you; and the lady told me then not to disturb her son.
 
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