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Rachel Nguyen
2020-11-19 03:11
One's heart's content British American noun phrase
When you say you can do something to your heart's content, you can do it as much as you want.
Just make your self at home, I've made plenty of food for everyone, so please eat to your heart's content.
We only had one week for relaxing, so we decided to spend all day watching Netflix to our hearts' content.
The atmosphere in the library was so comfortable that she spent hours reading to her heart's content.
He has been playing soccer for over 4 hours to his heart's content.
Although he was not allowed to play chess anymore, he kept playing to his heart's content.
I know for sure that the team will keep exploring to their hearts' content until they find out the answer.
A desire to do something, which is random, sudden and unaccountable
actions are more important than words
A group of bad or sinful people
This phrase is first put into print in Shakespeare's plays and there's every reason to believe that he coined it. He used it in at least two plays: Henry VI, Part II, 1592; The Merchant of Venice, 1596.
It is also found in a letter Shakespeare sent to the Earl of Southampton, as the dedication of the poem Venus and Adonis.
Do you see anything wrong?
The similarity between the children and their parents
I looked at my father's eyes, then looked at my eyes. I thought the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
