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heart-to-heart
[ hahrt-tuh-hahrt ]
adjective
- frank; sincere:
We had a heart-to-heart talk about his poor attendance.
noun
- Informal. a frank talk, especially between two persons.
heart-to-heart
adjective
- (esp of a conversation or discussion) concerned with personal problems or intimate feelings
noun
- an intimate conversation or discussion
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Word History and Origins
Origin of heart-to-heart1
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Idioms and Phrases
Candidly, sincerely, as in We need to talk heart to heart about her coming marriage . This expression is nearly always applied to a conversation of some kind. [Mid-1900s]Discover More
Example Sentences
Reynolds wrote an agony column, “Susan Chester Heart-to-Heart Letters,” for the Brooklyn Eagle.
Thought I'd wait until you were done and we could have a little heart-to-heart behind your closed door.
They had been hanging over the low balustrade, engaged in a heart-to-heart talk with two pretty Quartier brunettes.
They had a heart-to-heart talk presently, with the result that Mark Twain was free.
The longing for a real heart-to-heart friendship had been on one side only; that was the first, and most petrifying revelation.
I've realised it since a heart-to-heart talk old Con forced me to have with him a fortnight before we sailed.
He must go to Monteverde, give him a good, heart-to-heart lecture, so that he would be good and not make her suffer.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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