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at heart

In one's deepest feelings, as a great concern, as in The governor has the party's best interests at heart . [Early 1700s]
Fundamentally, basically, as in He's a good fellow at heart . It was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1735): “But every Woman is at heart a Rake.”

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With the collection, Lagerfeld offered a young-at-heart interpretation of his high art.

Did each determine to see all the good possible in the other, connections-by-marriage might become kin-at-heart.

Did the poor mocked-at heart divine what might be then enacting?

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