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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

And when the sun rose, she shifted gears to film dramatic heart-to-heart talks between Jamie and Ben in one or two takes.

"Last year, we spoke heart-to-heart with the community and now they must leave and go back to their villages," he added.

From BBC

“Zoe and I had a heart-to-heart and I said, ‘We can adapt,’” King said, recalling how they decided to create a decentralized model for the company that would allow her to live with her family.

“I strongly believe in heart-to-heart contact, eye-to-eye contact, and not through a camera or something,” he said.

He's been in a lot of great movies and a lot of not-so-great movies, and I was having a heart-to-heart with him about that process.

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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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