| 单词 | to play on the heartstrings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play (also strum, twang, etc.) on the heartstrings b. With punning allusion to stringed musical instruments. Frequently in to play (also strum, twang, etc.) on the heartstringsand variants: to move deeply. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > [noun] > chord of emotion heartstring1602 chord1785 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. i. 1982 [A fiddler sings] How can he play whose heart stringes broken are? 1668 D. Stokes Verus Christianus (new ed.) li. 207 No Musick can set anothers Heart-strings to the same tune with ours, so soon as this. 1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 109 What tuneless Heart-strings wadna twang, When Love and Beauty animates thy Sang? a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 301 Heav'n send your heart-strings ay in tune! An' screw your temper-pins aboon. 1878 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David V. Ps. cxi. 2 Our heart-strings are evermore getting out of tune. 1887 Lady M. Majendie Precautions III. ii. 47 I will play on your heart-strings as I used to do. 1964 I. Gershwin in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 383/1 If I'm all agitato, Ev'ry heartstring vibrato, Ev'ry look passionato—Who but you made me so? 1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 July 758/1 This book will stir your memories and twang a few heartstrings. 2010 J. Witcover J. Biden x. 150 His talent for strumming on the heartstrings of young Democratic yearnings. < as lemmas |
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