| 单词 | to put one's hand on one's heart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put one's hand on one's heart (c) to put one's hand on one's heart and variants: to adopt a position of honesty and sincerity. Also hand on heart: honestly, truly. Cf. heart n. 3. ΚΠ 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlvi. f. 265v I am assured that laying your hand vpon your heart, you will accuse your self..of that newe ingratitude. 1699 T. Brown Colloquies Erasmus iv. 27 Put your Hand to your Heart and tell me fairly. 1746 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 399/2 I can lay my hand on my heart, and say, that the greatest injury I ever did was to myself. 1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 2 June 361/1 I can put my hand on my heart, and say sincerely, I would not change situations with those who have thought it their duty to put me here. 1917 M. C. Oemler Slippy McGee xiv. 280 ‘Sure, parson? Hand on your heart?’ ‘Sure. Hand on my heart.’ 1992 A. Gray Poor Things (1993) xii. 82 I swear with hand on heart that monetary gain had no part in my determination to turn Bella Baxter into Bella Wedderburn. 2007 Washington Post 13 May (Home ed.) b7/2 Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. < as lemmas |
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