noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a back/heart/kidney etc problem
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He was born with heart problems.
a donor heart/liver/kidney etc
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The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.
a heart defect
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Laura was born with a rare heart defect.
a heart patient (= one with heart disease )
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Some heart patients have to wait between three months and a year for surgery.
a heart/liver/kidney etc donor
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There is a shortage of kidney donors.
a heart/lung/skin etc condition
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I’m taking some medicine for a heart condition.
a knee/heart/stomach etc operation
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He is almost back to full fitness after a knee operation.
a lonely hearts column British English (= with advertisements for a new lover or friend )
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Some men place advertisements in the lonely hearts columns.
bleeding heart
cry your eyes/heart out (= be extremely sad and cry a lot )
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Lucy read the letter and cried her eyes out.
dicky heart/ticker (= a heart that is weak and not very healthy )
gladden...hearts
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It will gladden the hearts of my friends to see you.
had a special place in...heart
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Her second son had a special place in her heart .
have/suffer a heart attack
heart attack
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You almost gave me a heart attack there!
heart disease
heart failure
heart pounding in her chest
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She ran, her heart pounding in her chest .
heart...aching
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Tim’s heart was aching for her.
heart/knee/brain etc surgery
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She is now fit again after knee surgery.
heart/liver/kidney disease
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He is being treated for kidney disease.
heart...melted
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My heart just melted when I saw her crying.
in the heart of a city
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The cathedral is right in the heart of the city.
jack of hearts/clubs etc
lonely hearts
massive stroke/heart attack etc
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He suffered a massive stroke.
pour out your heart/soul (= tell someone all your feelings, including your most secret ones )
Purple Heart
sb’s heart/pulse rate (= the number of beats per minute )
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A miner’s resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute.
soft heart
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He has a soft heart beneath that cold exterior.
stab sb in the heart/arm etc
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She had been stabbed in the chest repeatedly.
strike terror into sb’s heart
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His fearsome appearance strikes terror into the hearts of his enemies.
strike...at the heart of
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Such prejudices strike right at the heart of any notions of a civilized society.
suffer a heart attack/stroke
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He died after suffering a massive heart attack.
the heart/crux of the matter (= the most important part of something )
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The crux of the matter is: how do we prevent these floods from happening again?
the very heart of sth
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The hotel is located in the very heart of the city.
touched the hearts
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Her plight has touched the hearts of people around the world.
weak heart/lungs etc
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My grandfather had a weak heart.
your heart/pulse/breathing quickens (= your heart beats faster because you are afraid, excited etc )
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She caught sight of Rob and felt her heart quicken.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broken
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The system caused many a broken heart over the generations.
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It was the universal panacea for a broken heart .
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Harald died three months later, I believe of a broken heart .
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This was after David had split up with Hermione and was nursing a broken heart .
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Eating never fixed a broken heart !
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Neither miscarriages nor broken hearts , feuds or fainting fits, had ever managed to extinguish the footlights.
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Some said she'd left with a broken heart .
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No broken heart , you're free.
coronary
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Discussion Overall we found that periodontal disease was associated with a small increased risk of coronary heart disease.
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For coronary heart disease alone, the death rate in that same 10-year period declined by 26 percent.
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Prevention of coronary heart disease with pravastatin in men with hypercholesterolaemia.
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We found no association between extent of active dental decay and risk of coronary heart disease.
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The essential question is whether the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease is causal.
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Similar differences in relative risks between young and old have been observed in studies of other risk factors for coronary heart disease.
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That diet is associated with the group's continuing lower coronary heart disease rates, despite higher blood pressure.
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The incidence of coronary heart disease was the primary outcome measure in our analyses.
dear
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Performance-related pay is obviously dear to the hearts of the authors of the Patient's Charter.
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Again, the golden rule is only pick a cause that is dear to your heart .
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He stole your dear heart away with his lies.
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This pretension was to be dear to the heart of Philip Augustus.
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The question of establishment raised mutatis mutandis other causes dear to radical hearts .
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You've all the enthusiasm needed to campaign for a cause or idea that's near and dear to your heart .
heavy
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Eve had spent the day wandering around Dublin with a heavy heart .
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Here is a soldier who was waiting, with a heavy heart , to suffer and die in battle.
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I bowed to superior will and entered journalism with a heavy heart .
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Even so, he felt heavy of heart .
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They walked together towards the street, her body heavy but her heart lighter than when she had come.
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Virginia went up to her bedroom with a heavy heart , to change out of the clothes she'd worn all day.
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She gave her letter to the postman with a heavy heart , wondering if she would ever see her sister again.
very
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Data integration is especially a problem for geographers because information synthesis is at the very heart of the discipline.
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Fifteen acres of rich, tropical gardens in the very heart of the city.
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The implications of its absence in animals permeate to the very heart of our everyday talk about them.
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This site is next to our great national cathedral - the very heart of the capital city.
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Catalysts lie at the very heart of the chemicals industry.
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Will the Secretary of State answer that question truthfully because it strikes at the very heart of democracy?
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Enigmatic, delicate and beautifully understated, this is a book that will draw you into its very heart .
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The point at the very heart of anti-insider dealing legislation is the prohibition on the use of valuable information.
■ NOUN
attack
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Is it surprising that he should die a natural death from a heart attack ?
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When she had a heart attack , with no health insurance, they were evicted and ended up homeless.
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One had had a suspected heart attack , another had a broken leg.
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Gave Mrs Grote a heart attack .
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He later was rector of two other Norfolk parishes and retired in 1979 after a heart attack .
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The drug, called tPA, is a blood-thinner widely used to break up the clots that cause heart attacks .
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She thought of those other, milder heart attacks and felt afraid for him.
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For two decades, research has re-ported that anger is related to an increased risk of heart attack .
beating
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Still she said nothing, but she could feel her heart beating faster.
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Otherwise it is an ordinary day, the curtains billowing, house empty, heart beating . 3.
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Paige could feel her heart beating like a trapped bird in her chest and her senses reeled.
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Her heart beating erratically, she obeyed, clasping her hands together to prevent her fingers from straying into his black hair.
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Only a machine keeps the heart beating . 5.
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She felt her body, the sweat that held them together, Nathan's heart beating frantically against her chest.
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I listened to my heart beating .
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She went with him, her heart beating heavily.
condition
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He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed.
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Two passengers with minor cuts and a man with a heart condition were taken to hospitals.
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It was unlike her to miss a heart condition in a special patient.
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But it did not work at all well for the degenerative diseases such as cancer, lupus, or various heart conditions .
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She turned to the dealers and complained this time about her heart condition .
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Sinai Hospital Geriatrics Department identified 233 older adults with heart conditions , all of whom should have been receiving the drugs.
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He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition .
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Instead all she had was a heart condition , which progressively weakened her until she died at fifty-five.
disease
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Continual weight fluctuation increases the risk of heart disease and early death.
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The ability of skin cholesterol to predict heart disease is similar to that of blood cholesterol.
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It may be that a relaxed and cheerful attitude to socializing is the real protective against heart disease .
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She recently became a spokeswoman for the cause of reducing heart disease in women.
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Excess flab causes heart disease , strokes, cancers, arthritis and a tendency to find Jo Brand funny.
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Emphysema and valvular heart disease have left him debilitated and physically dependent.
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There will also be targets aimed at reducing the incidence of strokes, heart disease and preventable cancers.
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Overweight children and adults have increased heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels.
failure
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Muscle cramps, kidney and even heart failure are the physical results of prolonged bulimia.
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Patients with liver or heart failure frequently have a primary respiratory alkalosis.
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Any great degree of such aortic valve incompetence will place an unacceptable work-load on the heart , with resulting heart failure .
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Starting soon, some one from the Massachusetts center will check up several times a week on senior citizens with congestive heart failure .
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But fainting, and heart failure , is possible.
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If the patient develops early overt congestive heart failure it is contraindicated, but do seriously consider it later.
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In addition, hypocalcemia has been associated with cardiac enlargement and congestive heart failure .
problem
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Susan's cousin, Craig O'Mahoney, was born with heart problems and had to be rushed to a hospital on Tyneside.
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Yeltsin, 66, suffers from heart problems , recently underwent bypass surgery and was stricken with pneumonia last month.
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Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem .
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However, Seldane may cause heart problems if taken with certain antibiotics or anti-fungal drugs, warns Choi.
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There is often associated muscle weakness and sometimes heart problems can occur.
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The disorder is not a type of heart problem , neurosis, or depression, how-ever.
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If caught during the early weeks of pregnancy it can cause deafness, blindness and heart problems in the baby.
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His family told authorities Daniels had no history of heart problems .
rate
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Then our heart rate climbs, steadily, until our ears are gulping on the new blood.
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After a minute of this, your heart rate has slowed by 20 percent.
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This increases your heart rate and encourages more oxygen into the body as you breathe more quickly.
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Prolonged high levels of cholesterol, blood pressure, and heart rate tax the cardiovascular system.
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The study was stopped if symptoms became severe or if heart rate rose above 140 beats per minute.
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Hypothermia weakens muscles and slows heart rate , which may stop if body temperature falls below 90 degrees.
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This is displayed on the electro-cardiograph screen, along with heart rate .
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Like digestion, heart rate , respiration, or perspiration, sleep is an involuntary function of the autonomic nervous system.
surgery
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The following is an example of some cognitive objectives for teaching the nursing care of a patient recovering from heart surgery .
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Has the price of heart surgery gone up in the last five hundred years?
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Tiny Kane Elmore died after becoming infected with the bacteria following heart surgery .
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Among many recent attempts to measure spirituality in relation to health, heart surgery patients help make a point.
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With today's 99 percent success rate the future for most open heart surgery patients is rosy.
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Galway who has made a full recovery after heart surgery a year ago, now follows a careful diet.
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Under the current arrangements, the priorities within open heart surgery are decided solely by the clinicians concerned.
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In May this year he had heart surgery .
■ VERB
beat
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The beating heart of labor was enchanted to a stone.
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I waited and heard the beating of my heart .
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Here l am, at my age, and I never heard the beating of my heart before.
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They can go deep into it, on foot, and still find the beating heart of wilderness there.
break
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I knew Marcus needed me and it was breaking my heart .
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It was part sadness, like a broken heart .
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A terrible, impersonal courtesy had crept into Luke's manner, and it was breaking Maria's heart all over again.
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This bread is so popular that it broke my heart having to throw it out.
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Nothing worth breaking your heart over.
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As she goes through bottles, bands and boyfriends, she leaves a trail of her broken heart behind her.
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And I didn't break any hearts - they all knew the score.
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And, now, they race with broken hearts .
capture
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Gossip has it that Madonna has also captured Beatty's heart .
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They remember history by evoking magical names from the past, players who captured the hearts of the nation.
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If only he hadn't captured her heart .
die
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If a stock-oriented ports folio makes you nervous and more likely to die young from a heart attack, forget it.
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Of course, he defied doctor's orders, and in 1977 he died of a massive heart attack, aged sixty.
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Then he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1983 at the age of 53.
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Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain.
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The autopsy report stated that Agit Salman died of a heart attack.
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A day or so later, his father died of a heart attack.
eat
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Eric Clapton eat your heart out.
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Pablo Picasso, eat your heart out.
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Philip Schofield, eat your heart out.
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We all know those clergymen and their choirboys, don't we? Eat your heart out, Socrates!
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The square tango had to be seen to be believed - eat your hearts out, disco dancers!
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Kate is obviously eating her heart out for a colour changer and an intarsia carriage.
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Keith Floyd eat your heart out!!
feel
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Ruth looked, feeling her heart thump.
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My head was resting against his chest and I felt his heart beating against my eye and cheek.
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She turned away, feeling sick at heart , even though she knew she should be glad.
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He could feel his heart beating in his throat.
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When he talked to me, I felt my heart jump.
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Jess swallowed, feeling her heart pump and thud.
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She felt her heart thump in reaction to the stress she had been under.
lie
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The allure of diamonds lies at the heart of the issue.
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Unlike some Straussians, however, he highlights the persistent waltz rhythms that lie at the heart of the horror.
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Though selection of countries lies at the heart of comparison, selection without reflection may lead to serious problems of inference.
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Therein, lies the heart , the pity and the anguish of this initial collaboration between Strauss and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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The village lies in the heart of Winifred Holtby country, between the main Wolds area and the contrasting lowlands of Holderness.
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Supporters claim the policy lies at the heart of their efforts to impose financial hardships on the Castro regime.
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The job description lies at the heart of good recruitment and selection practice.
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It is one that lies close to the heart of any study of the interaction of religion and society.
lose
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It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart .
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Like their rivals, they expect no gifts, no walkovers against an opponent who has lost heart and given up.
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How easy it was to lose heart .
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Knowing the examination is a written one, he loses heart .
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But the London Planetarium has not lost its heart .
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I really lost heart when I realized that you could probably eat the chemicals spread across my table.
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It was Niki who had lost heart .
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People who participate only in theory lose heart .
open
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After the war, black GIs came home with opened eyes and hearts full of pride.
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She was friendly and easy to talk to and, after a while, I opened up my heart .
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She felt guilty, always guilty, thinking how she should be opening her whole heart to him.
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But incredulity it was that popped my eyes open and stopped my heart , swept away my slightest consciousness of pain.
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He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before.
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We opened our hearts and wept.
pound
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He stopped on the stairs, all his old fears returning, feeling his heart beginning to pound .
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His heart pounded as he hung up the receiver.
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I hurried home, my heart pounding and my hands trembling in spite of myself-I could not believe it.
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I jumped, a small, involuntary hop in place, my heart pounding .
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She forced her eyes open, and at once her heart was pounding .
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He wanted to pretend cool detachment, but his heart was pounding .
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I felt my own blouse sticking to my back, my heart pounding fast.
pour
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We may pour out our hearts about the situation in which we find ourselves, expressing our trust, hope and confidence.
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Amid all the purple, there was cardinal and gold, spilling from guts and pouring from hearts .
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He poured out his heart to me.
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She would regularly pour out her heart to the kind-hearted friend who she has known since her teenage days.
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I think he poured his heart and soul into dance.
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Andrus had gone to Zoser and poured out his heart .
set
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On the back of this publicity, a range of young artists arose, set to conquer our hearts and minds.
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He was not a man to give way easily and he had clearly set his heart on making her recognise her father.
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Thoughts of the night that had just passed set her heart pounding and the blood rushing to her face.
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It fell with a crash which rattled her composure and set her heart thudding.
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The desire to reform, to set the human heart in harmony with principles of virtue produced moral plays.
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So now, after all, there was something she had set her heart on.
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The thought of running to catch a bus may be enough to set your heart racing.
stop
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She stopped breathing but her heart kept on thudding its own wild race.
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I wish I could call you now but a ringing phone at such an hour stops the very heart .
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She stopped immediately, her heart thumping in sudden fright as she saw that the chapel was occupied.
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The first drug paralyzed his lungs; the second stopped his heart .
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The fire to a Gruncher is like your heart is to you. Stop your heart and you die at once.
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The look on the dead man's face was ghastly, as if some phantom of the night had stopped his heart .
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Thomas Cotterill had stopped breathing and his heart had stopped.
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Shiona stopped breathing, her heart pounding inside her.
strike
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I predicted that a dramatic event would soon strike at the heart of the Royal Family.
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We want to set up an event that will make it appear they have struck at the heart of our government.
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The Slav opposition collapsed almost immediately, as if the very name of Charles had struck terror into their hearts .
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Every crisis would strike terror into the hearts of people everywhere.
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If there is a single subject guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of parents, it is drugs.
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The very physical description of the Huns proved sufficient in and of itself to strike terror into the hearts of their enemies.
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Those two little hyphenated words struck terror in the heart of some one eager for a weekend of yoga classes and silent breakfasts.
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The man whose very name struck terror in the hearts of managing directors?
suffer
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He suffered a heart attack early in the game.
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In Connecticut, a Waterbury man suffered a fatal heart attack Sunday night after going outside to fill his snowblower with gasoline.
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The swop did not come to light until Arlena, who suffered from a congenital heart defect, had to undergo surgery.
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Finally, at eighty-six, she suffered a very severe heart attack that killed her.
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In Britain one in ten men under the age of retirement will suffer a heart attack.
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Before it could be resolved, Alsop suffered a heart attack.
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And in Dusseldorf police said a member of the Republican party suffered a heart attack after being beaten up by demonstrators.
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In the spring of 1993, Li suffered a heart attack and was relieved of more duties.
tear
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It tore her heart to see him go.
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If they start building here, it will be like tearing my heart out.
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Long and slow, powerful enough to tear the heart right out of her.
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Well, sir, what they saw inside, it just tore their hearts out, it was so horrible.
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Why do I tear my heart by recalling our words then?
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Brewer reveals why the burning of Sarajevo's National Library tore out the heart of the city.
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A torn heart also causes earthquakes.
touch
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That despairing bleat touched a heart she hadn't been sure still existed.
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The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
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Shiona felt a cold hand touch her heart .
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George Burns' sense of timing and captivating smile touched the hearts and funny bones of more than three generations.
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He touched he heart , awakening the love, stirring the pain.
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He wanted her to be permanent, an edifice whose piles touched the heart of the earth.
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Peace on Earth as he lets his light shine, he touched my heart and now he's mine.
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It was enough to touch my heart .
warm
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From a slightly more elevated plane of cinematic endeavour comes news to warm the heart of Woody Allen.
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And the biographies warmed the heart .
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If it's the latter then there was plenty more at the show to warm any enthusiast's heart .
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This is an inspirational tale that would warm the heart of Joseph Campbell.
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Satisfaction warmed her heart as she watched two healthy pups suckling contentedly.
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It warmed my heart that nearly all their favorite musicians were females.
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It warmed our hearts and fed our faith.
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Words, smiles, laughs and hugs can warm the heart of another.
win
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Since its conception, the Format has been winning hearts and minds as a useful mechanism.
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Their charm and informality immediately won many hearts in circles high and low.
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Was this going to be the man who won Madeleine's heart ?
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Robbie Williams won our collective heart years ago.
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Take your audience by the hand and lead them along with you. 7. Win hearts - then minds 8.
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This year a mere sprat of a northern lass won my heart playing hers out on a mighty and sonorous trombone.
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The urgent appeal won the hearts and minds of all who love and know Snowdon, and the response has been incredible.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(heart) bypass operation/surgery
a broken heart
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According to legend, anyone who ever fired the weapon died of a broken heart or cardiac arrest.
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Harald died three months later, I believe of a broken heart.
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He has to find a way to heal a broken heart and help hold his family together.
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It was part sadness, like a broken heart.
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It was the universal panacea for a broken heart.
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Sindham dies and then Ana dies of a broken heart.
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The system caused many a broken heart over the generations.
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This was after David had split up with Hermione and was nursing a broken heart.
a light heart
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He sat down to his dinner with a light heart.
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I pitched into the chores with a light heart, singing to myself as I worked.
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The breakdown of his marriage to Anna and remarriage to Wendi Deng were not done easily or with a light heart.
absence makes the heart grow fonder
bad heart/leg/back etc
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A sweetheart, this little lady, not bad legs either.
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For Joshua, at sixty-two, and suffering from a bad leg, distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance.
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He had a bad back as well, you know, just like Rich.
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He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up.
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Medical deferment for a very bad heart.
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That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.
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The problems-from bad backs to carpal tunnel syndrome to headaches-have made the headlines of every health magazine in the country.
be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart
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The date was engraved on his heart.
break sb's heart
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It'll break your father's heart if you tell him you're quitting the team.
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It breaks my heart that his career has been ruined.
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It really broke his heart when she told him it was over.
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It would break her heart to leave the lovely old stone house where she'd lived for so long.
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When Annie left him, it broke his heart.
capture sb's heart
clutch at sb's heart
cross my heart (and hope to die)
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I didn't take it, cross my heart!
do sth to your heart's content
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I was able to browse through the bookstore to my heart's content .
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And I can go fishing to my heart's content .
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He could come and argue to his heart's content .
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Instead she took refuge in the library where she could read and research to her heart's content .
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Once you've stuck your shapes and text on the page you can rotate and repeat they to your heart's content .
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She had lazed around the pool to her heart's content - and she had played tennis with Carlos three times.
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Throw it around to your heart's content .
eat your heart out
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I just bought a new convertible. Eat your heart out, Jay.
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Eric Clapton eat your heart out.
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Kate is obviously eating her heart out for a colour changer and an intarsia carriage.
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Keith Floyd eat your heart out!!
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Pablo Picasso, eat your heart out.
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Philip Schofield, eat your heart out.
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The square tango had to be seen to be believed - eat your hearts out, disco dancers!
find it in your heart/yourself to do sth
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For this alone, I may find it in my heart to forgive her.
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He hoped the moon could find it in its heart to overlook his sins as it climbed the heavens.
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To his grief, Donny's widow would not find it in her heart to speak to him again.
from the bottom of your heart
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I hadn't, June, so I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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It's what I've always wanted from the bottom of my heart...
give sb/have a heart attack
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Doctors at Leicester Royal Infirmary are to assess the benefits of giving magnesium to heart attack victims immediately after an attack.
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I will surely give some one a heart attack ... I have varicose veins in my legs.
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That ought to give Francois a heart attack.
harden your heart
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And then Nancy will harden her heart against him.
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But difficulties did not harden his heart.
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He hardened his heart and turned on his computer, smiling acidly at the screen.
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He tried to harden his heart in advance, but knew it was just a front.
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She hardened her heart and thought she should swiftly make it clear she had not come in search of him.
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The girl had hardened her heart so much; there was no point in giving her further cause.
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Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
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When he had left her with a tiny baby, she had hardened her heart somehow.
have your heart/sights set on sth
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Teng is thought to have her sights set on the Board of Supervisors' presidency.
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But do the public have their sights set on an Urbanizer?
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If you have your hearts set on a joint endowment, you have two alternatives to cashing in the present one.
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Many of the Keishinkai parents have their hearts set on Keio.
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Movie sniper Jude Law and Rachel Weisz are covered in mud but still have their sights set on desire.
lie at the heart/centre/root of sth
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As we shall find, this distinction lies at the root of Anselm's movements in his last years as archbishop.
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Basic compassion, not just for the old but for the younger generation too, lies at the heart of this idea.
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That is the issue which lies at the heart of Mr. Thorpe's case.
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That question appears to lie at the heart of the highly publicized battle raging between Hasbro Inc. and Mattel Inc.
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That view lies at the root of a government drive against the racist right.
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The creation of a modernised democracy therefore lies at the heart of all our proposals.
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They overlook the human ability to negate, which lies at the root of thinking.
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We found that two key resource uses and two basic technologies lay at the root of lunar industry.
lonely hearts club/column/ad
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He met Dominique through a lonely hearts ad.
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How would you describe yourself in a lonely hearts ad?
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They talked about books, the theatre, cinema, where they lived, lonely hearts columns.
open your heart (to sb)
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For her part, she felt that he was some one to whom she could open her heart and who would understand.
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He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before.
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Just allow your intuitive faculties to operate, open your heart and be honest with yourself and the landscape.
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Robbie opened his heart after a secret charity gig at London's Equinox club on Thursday.
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She thought about it and decided it was a sign, and what it meant was: open your heart.
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Three quarters of all the teenagers questioned would open their hearts at home.
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We opened our hearts and wept.
out of the goodness of sb's heart
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Surely even an idiot must realise that they wouldn't donate this huge amount out of the goodness of their hearts.
pierce sb's heart
sb's heart misses a beat
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When Caroline smiled at Eddie, his heart missed a beat.
set your heart/mind/sights on (doing) sth
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But where there are sellers there are buyers, and it was this latter rare species we had set our sights on.
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Gazing intently into her computer screen, Christine Montgomery has set her sights on the next generation of electronic language translators.
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He knew he was bound to pull any girl he set his mind on - he always had.
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Heath had set her sights on the U. S. Senate seat from Colorado.
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Her youth and beauty elicited a predictable reaction from my father, who set his sights on her at once.
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Sofa Head's greatest asset is the realisation that you don't have to set your sights on one target.
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Wagner set his sights on a degree in electrical engineering, and he followed his star with a fervid intensity.
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Yes, she thought, if Tamar had set her mind on something she would never rest until it was accomplished.
sick at heart
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All the cruelty and injustice made her sick at heart.
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But Aeschylus too was sick at heart.
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He struggles against it, he rejects it, he grows sick at heart.
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I was alone, dry of mouth, sick at heart.
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She turned away, feeling sick at heart, even though she knew she should be glad.
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They were sick at heart, weak in the bones.
steal sb's heart
strike terror/fear into sb's heart
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Believe me, all those cannon, mortars and volley guns should strike fear into the heart of the enemy.
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Every crisis would strike terror into the hearts of people everywhere.
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Nothing here to strike fear into the hearts of the people.
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The Slav opposition collapsed almost immediately, as if the very name of Charles had struck terror into their hearts.
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The very physical description of the Huns proved sufficient in and of itself to strike terror into the hearts of their enemies.
tear sb's heart (out)/tear at sb's heart
tug at sb's heart/heartstrings
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The sight of the puppies in the cages tugged at the women's hearts.
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Charity had felt something tug at her heart the moment she had first seen this cove.
warm the cockles of sb's heart
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It warms the cockles of my female heart to know that such womanly wiles still continue to manipulate and convince.
wear your heart on your sleeve
with a heavy heart
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Eve had spent the day wandering around Dublin with a heavy heart.
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Here is a soldier who was waiting, with a heavy heart, to suffer and die in battle.
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I bowed to superior will and entered journalism with a heavy heart.
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Lisa glanced defeatedly at the pile of papers, then with a heavy heart she gathered them up.
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Many Opposition Members who will obey the three-line Whip and vote against the motion will do so with a heavy heart.
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She gave her letter to the postman with a heavy heart, wondering if she would ever see her sister again.
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She made her way to the cells with a heavy heart.
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Virginia went up to her bedroom with a heavy heart, to change out of the clothes she'd worn all day.
worm your way into sb's affections/heart/confidence etc
young at heart
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Arthur's 96, but he's still young at heart.
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It's ideal for children aged over five and adults who are young at heart.
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Obtain a fifty five Plymouth for the young at heart.
your heart sinks
your heart/stomach lurches
your heart/thoughts go out to sb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eating too many fatty foods is bad for the heart .
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Let's stop talking about irrelevant issues, and get to the heart of the matter.
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Money always lies at the heart of our fights.
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My heart was beating so fast I thought it would burst.
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Put your hand on your heart and repeat after me.
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This new book gets to the heart of the controversy over nuclear power.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After visiting a heart specialist, Tom discovered she had heart valve damage, court papers said.
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And her heart gave just a little kick of worry as she turned to Ted Morgan again.
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Doctors said that while his heart was fine, his vascular system had given up the ghost.
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It lacks light and shade, the conviction and theatrical intensity that drives words straight into people's hearts.
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It was a Series that played at the heart of the modern entertainment dilemma.
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Therefore I have no heart , and can not love.
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We have your interests at heart .