单词 | bless his heart |
释义 | > as lemmas(God, etc.) bless his (also her, etc.) heart (b) (God, etc.) bless his (also her, etc.) heart: used to express fondness or sympathy for the person referred to; (also, in the American South) used negatively, almost as a curse. ΚΠ 1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) v. i. 68 Bless her Heart! good Lady! 1756 A. Murphy Apprentice i. 16 He's at his Plays again..Lord bless his Heart, he's to teach me to act Scrub. 1802 Sporting Mag. Sept. 312/1 Our chairman..happened to say, (God bless his heart, I dare say he thought no more harm than the child unborn) ‘There was no fear but that [etc.].’ 1886 R. Broughton Dr. Cupid II. vii. 164 She can no longer look upon me as a child, bless her old heart! 1943 L. Lenski Bayou Suzette x. 139 Marteel, she give the children more fun than they ever had before, bless 'er heart. 2004 S. E. Phillips Ain't she Sweet? (2005) i. 5 I know you don't mean to be vain and self-centered, Sugar Beth, bless your heart. 2019 S. Neiman Learning from Germans iv. 144 She was crucial in explaining the way things worked, and didn't, in Mississippi, translating the native tongue where necessary. Bless your heart sounds sweet, for example, but it's closer to a curse than anything else. < as lemmas |
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