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View synonyms for heart-to-heart

heart-to-heart

[ hahrt-tuh-hahrt ]

adjective

  1. frank; sincere:

    We had a heart-to-heart talk about his poor attendance.



noun

  1. Informal. a frank talk, especially between two persons.

heart-to-heart

adjective

  1. (esp of a conversation or discussion) concerned with personal problems or intimate feelings
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. an intimate conversation or discussion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of heart-to-heart1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Idioms and Phrases

Candidly, sincerely, as in We need to talk heart to heart about her coming marriage . This expression is nearly always applied to a conversation of some kind. [Mid-1900s]
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Example Sentences

Reynolds wrote an agony column, “Susan Chester Heart-to-Heart Letters,” for the Brooklyn Eagle.

Thought I'd wait until you were done and we could have a little heart-to-heart behind your closed door.

They had been hanging over the low balustrade, engaged in a heart-to-heart talk with two pretty Quartier brunettes.

They had a heart-to-heart talk presently, with the result that Mark Twain was free.

The longing for a real heart-to-heart friendship had been on one side only; that was the first, and most petrifying revelation.

I've realised it since a heart-to-heart talk old Con forced me to have with him a fortnight before we sailed.

He must go to Monteverde, give him a good, heart-to-heart lecture, so that he would be good and not make her suffer.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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