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Also, put one's heart in it . Be emotionally involved in something, undertake something enthusiastically, as in Nancy puts her heart in her teaching . This expression may also be put negatively as one's heart is not in it , as in She decided to quit; her heart just wasn't in this kind of work . [Late 1700s] Also see have no heart for .

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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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