harden your heart
to make yourself stop feeling kind or friendly towards someone:
You've just got to harden your heart and tell him to leave.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Controlling emotions
- bottle
- bottle sth up
- brave
- breaking point
- choke
- choke sth back
- collected
- compose
- cork
- emotional blackmail idiom
- frustrated
- give voice to sth idiom
- gulp sth back
- harden
- repress
- repressed
- self-possession
- steadily
- swallow
- temper
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