warm someone's heart
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warm the cockles (of someone's heart) — warm the cockles (of someone’s heart) old fashioned phrase to make someone feel pleased and happy Thesaurus: to make someone happy or happiersynonym Main entry: cockle … Useful english dictionary
gladden someone's heart — warm/gladden/someone’s heart mainly literary phrase to make someone feel happy Thesaurus: to make someone happy or happiersynonym Main entry: heart … Useful english dictionary
warm the cockles of someone's heart — verb To provide happiness, to bring a deeply felt contentment, possibly derived from the similarity in appearance of the heart valves to the cockle, a bivalve mollusk of the family Cardiidae. Syn: warm someones heart See Also: heart warming … Wiktionary
heart — [ hart ] noun *** ▸ 1 organ that pumps blood ▸ 2 area of chest with heart ▸ 3 your feelings ▸ 4 inner central part ▸ 5 shape representing love ▸ 6 suit of playing cards ▸ 7 most important part ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count the organ in your chest that… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
heart — I UK [hɑː(r)t] / US [hɑrt] noun Word forms heart : singular heart plural hearts *** 1) [countable] the organ in your chest that makes blood flow around your body I could hear his heart beating. have a weak/bad heart: Did you know he had a weak… … English dictionary
warm — /wɔm / (say wawm) adjective 1. having or communicating a moderate degree of heat, as perceptible to the senses. 2. of or at a moderately high temperature; characterised by comparatively high temperature: a warm climate. 3. having a sensation of… …
heart — W1S1 [ha:t US ha:rt] n ↑artery, ↑brain, ↑fatty, ↑tissue, ↑heart, ↑kidney, ↑intestine, ↑intestine2, ↑small, ↑large, ↑liver, ↑lung, ↑muscles, ↑stoma … Dictionary of contemporary English
warm — [wôrm] adj. [ME < OE wearm, akin to Ger warm < IE base * gwher , hot > Gr thermē, heat, thermos, warm, theros, summer, L formus, warm, fornax, furnace] 1. a) having or giving off a moderate degree of heat [a warm iron, warm coffee] b)… … English World dictionary
warm — warmer, n. warmish, adj. warmly, adv. warmness, n. /wawrm/, adj., warmer, warmest, v., n. adj. 1. having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath … Universalium
warm — [[t]wɔrm[/t]] adj. 1) having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath[/ex] 2) characterized by a moderately or comparatively high temperature: a warm oven; a warm climate[/ex] 3) having a sensation of… … From formal English to slang
