单词 | to tug at the heartstrings |
释义 | > as lemmasto tug (also pull) at the heartstrings a. This structure viewed as the source of a person's most intense feelings or emotions, esp. of love or compassion. Chiefly in figurative contexts directly referring to sense 1, esp. in to tug (also pull) at the heartstrings and variants: to move deeply. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > seat of the emotions > [noun] > breast or heart > inmost heart or bottom of heart groundc1175 heart-roota1200 roota1200 heartstring1533 heart of hearts1604 heart's core1604 recess1605 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani viji. sig. Eviv Ye & in my spiryte & my hert strynges [L. in praecordijs meis] I wyll wake in the mornynges for to please the. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. sig. F4v Her hart did leape, and all her hart-strings tremble. View more context for this quotation a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttt4/1 The falsest woman, That ever broke mans heart-strings. 1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love v. i. 57 She's gone, and pull'd my heart-strings as she went. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xii. 79 A young Woman, whom he loved as tenderly as he did his Heartstrings . View more context for this quotation 1766 J. Beattie Poems Several Subj. 114 That thing made of sound and show..Will make your very heartstrings ake. 1814 M. Faraday Let. 14 Apr. in P. Day Philosopher's Tree (1999) iii. 52 Let them look about the world unencumbered by such ties and heart-strings. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. Introd. 3 By his..winning ways he made the heartstrings of his children twine around him. 1918 L. D. Goldsberry Ted & Other Stories 146 They listened; the baby sucking in its sleep. Sound that pulls a woman's heart-strings. 1971 Times 28 Dec. 5/2 He gets down to his real purpose of twisting the occasional heartstring. 2003 Hist. Teacher 37 124 The letters are sure to tug at the heartstrings of even the most stoic readers. < as lemmas |
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