heart to heart1
Candidly, intimately.But what I think he really wants me to know is that he's not selling the family silver without having had a good, long, hard, heart to heart with his conscience about it, and that I shouldn't think that he's a bad person by doing so....
- They had a heart to heart and told each other a lot of home truths.
- We had a bit of a heart to heart, so to speak, with the players on Tuesday night at training.
See parent entry: heart
heart-to-heart2
/ˌhɑːttəˈhɑːt
/adjective
(Of a conversation) candid, intimate, and personal: a heart-to-heart chat...
- In fact, we need heart-to-heart dialogues between friends, between teachers and students, between husbands and wives, between parents and children.
- He used to drive his children to school in order to get a chance to have heart-to-heart discussions with them.
- The happy and complacent resolution to the potentially tragic events, brought about apparently by a couple of five-minute heart-to-heart conversations, should satisfy no one.
Synonyms
intimate, candid, frank, open, unreserved, personal, honest, truthful, sincere, man-to-man, woman-to-woman
noun
A candid and intimate conversation.Over the years, there have been dances in the dining room, countless heart-to-hearts on the porch, weekends when 20 stayed over, some they even knew....
- I'm not saying you can't have honest heart-to-hearts.
- The rest is just a series of semi-connected, extremely well acted, half-finished arguments and incomplete heart-to-hearts.
Synonyms
private conversation, private word, cosy chat, tête-à-tête, one-on-one, one-to-one, head-to-head, conversation, chat, talk, word
informal confab, chit-chat, chinwag
British informal natter
Australian informal convo
Rhymes
- post eventum
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- post-existence
- post-existent
- post-exposure
- post-exposure prophylaxis
- postface
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- post-Fascist
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- postfemoral
- postfertilization
- post festum
- post-final
- post fine
- postfix