with all my heart


with all (one's) heart

With one's sincerest feelings. I will love you with all my heart until the day we die. I just wanted to tell you, with all my heart, how proud I am of you.See also: all, heart

with all my heart

With all the energy and enthusiasm I can muster. This phrase has been around since the sixteenth century, and was so well known by the time Jonathan Swift assembled Polite Conversation (1738) that he wrote, “With all my heart and a piece of my liver.” A century earlier Philip Massinger also had played with it (The Great Duke of Florence, 1636): “Once more to you, with a heart and a half.”See also: all, heart