take sth to heart
C2 If you take criticism or advice to heart, you think about it seriously, often because it upsets you:
Don't take it to heart - he was only joking about your hair.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Continually thinking about
- absorb
- absorbed
- axe
- be devoured by sth idiom
- be hung up on sth idiom
- be wrapped up in sth/sb idiom
- devour
- fixated
- fixation
- get into sb
- have an axe to grind idiom
- have sth on the brain idiom
- mania
- nag
- obsession
- obsessive
- one-track mind
- preoccupation
- preoccupied
- preoccupy
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