| 释义 |
After one's own heart
| conforming with one's inmost approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart. |
See also: Heart after one's own heart
after (one's) own heartSharing similar values, ideas, or interests. Michelle is very tech-savvy and loves to code—just like me! She's a woman after my own heart.See also: after, heart, ownman after my own heartFig. a man with similar tastes and preferences to mine. You like creamed chip-beef on toast? There's a man after my own heart.See also: after, heart, man, ownafter one's own heartTo one's own personal liking, as in He's very patient with the slower pupils; he's a teacher after my own heart. This idiom appears in the King James Bible of 1611 (I Samuel 13:14). [Late 1500s] See also: after, heart, ownafter one's own heartPrecisely to one’s liking. Considered a cliché since the late nineteenth century, this phrase appears in the Old Testament’s first Book of Samuel (13:14): “The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people.”See also: after, heart, own |