Have one's heart in the right place

Definition

heart /hɑ:t/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ႏွလံုး။ His heart stopped beating and he died. ❍ have heart trouble/disease ❍ RESPIRATORY (ခ) ႏွလံုးရိွရာရင္ဘတ္ပိုင္း။ ႏွလံုး။ He pressed her hand against his heart. ၂။ [C] ႏွလံုးသား။ စိတ္ႏွလံုး။ စိတ္။ I have everything my heart desires. ❍ She knew it in her heart. ❍ He has a kind/soft heart. ❍ Have you no heart? ❍ The child captured the heart of the nation. ၃။ [U] စိတ္အား ထက္သန္မႈ။ စိတ္ပါဝင္စားမႈ။ I want you to put more heart into your singing. ၄။ [C] (က) အလယ္ဗဟို။ အခ်က္အခ်ာ။ in the heart of the forest/ city ❍ get to the heart of the matter/ subject/ mystery. (ခ) (ေဂၚဖီထုပ္၊ ဆလတ္ရြက္ စသည္တို႔၏) အတြင္းသား။ ၅။ (က) [C] ႏွလံုးပံု။ အသည္းပံု။ အသည္းႏွလံုးပံု။ ❍ PLAYING-CARD (ခ) hearts [sing or pl v ] ဖူးနီ (သို႔) ပိမ့္ဖဲခ်ပ္။ the ten of hearts. (ဂ) [C] ဖူးနီ (သို႔) ပိမ့္ဖဲခ်ပ္။ play a heart. ❏ after one's own heart [ IDM ] အႀကိဳက္ခ်င္းတူသည္။ He likes good wine too—he's obviously a man after my own heart. ❏ at heart [ IDM ] ပင္ကိုအားျဖင့္။ I'm a country girl at heart. ❏ break sb's/ one's heart [ IDM ] အသည္းခြဲသည္။ It broke her heart when he left. ❏ by heart [IDM] အာဂံု။ အလြတ္။ learn/ know a poem by heart. ❏ close/ dear/ near to sb's heart [ IDM ] အလြန္ စိတ္ပါ ဝင္စားသည္။ This subject is very close to my heart. ❏ do one's heart good [ IDM ] ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ၾကည္ႏူးေစသည္။ It does my heart good to see the children enjoying themselves. ❏ from the (bottom of one's) heart [ IDM ] အူထဲအသည္း ထဲက။ အူလိႈက္သည္းလိႈက္။ လိႈက္လိႈက္လွဲလွဲ။ This advice comes from the heart. ❏ give sb (fresh) heart [ IDM ] အားေပးသည္။ ❏ give one's heart to sb/ sth [ IDM ] အသက္တမွ်၊ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ ကာကာ ခ်စ္သည္။ ❏ have sth at heart [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးလိုလားသည္။ He has your interests at heart (ie wants you to be happy and successful). ❏ have a heart [ IDM ] ( infml ) သနားပါ။ ညႇာတာပါ။ ❏ have the heart (to do sth) [ IDM ] (usu in negative sentences or questions with can or could )… ရက္သည္။ I hadn't the heart to refuse. ❏ have one's heart in one's boots [ IDM ] ဝမ္းနည္းေၾကကြဲ သည္။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်သည္။ ❏ have one's heart in one's mouth [ IDM ] ႏွလံုးတုန္ သည္။ My heart was in my mouth. ❏ have one's heart in the right place [ IDM ] စိတ္ေကာင္း ႏွလံုးေကာင္းရိွသည္။ သေဘာျဖဴအူစင္းသည္။ ❏ heart and soul [ IDM ] စိတ္ေရာကိုယ္ပါ။ စိတ္ပါလက္ပါ။ devote oneself heart and soul to one's work. ❏ heart attack n ႏွလံုးေဖာက္ျပန္မႈ။ have/ suffer a heart attack ❍ ( joc ) My father nearly had a heart attack when he found out how much we'd spent. Compare CORONARY THROMBOSIS ❏ one's heart bleeds for sb [ IDM ] ( often ironic ) က႐ုဏာသက္သည္။ ❏ one's heart goes out to sb [ IDM ] က႐ုဏာသက္သည္။ သနားသည္။ ❏ -hearted (in compound adjs ) … စိတ္ရိွေသာ။ kind-hearted ❍ faint-hearted. ❏ heart failure n [U]႐ုတ္တရက္ႏွလံုးခုန္ရပ္ျခင္း။ die of heart failure. ❏ one's heart is in sth [ IDM ] စိတ္ဝင္စားမႈရိွသည္။ I want her to keep learning the violin but her heart's not in it. ❏ heartless adj အသနားအၾကင္နာမဲ့ေသာ။ a heartless woman. heartlessly adv heartlessness n [U] ❏ a heart of gold [ IDM ] စိတ္ရင္းေကာင္းျခင္း။ He may seem bad-tempered but he's got a heart of gold. ❏ a heart of stone [ IDM ] အသည္းမာျခင္း။ အသနား အၾကင္နာမဲ့သည့္ စိတ္။ ❏ heart-rending adj ေၾကကြဲဖြယ္။ ယူက်ံဳးမရျဖစ္ဖြယ္။ a heart-rending sight/ story. ❏ one's heart sinks [ IDM ] စိတ္ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္ျဖစ္သည္။ When I saw the huge pile of dirty dishes, my heart sank. ❏ heart-stopping adj သည္းထိတ္ရင္ဖို။ a heart-stopping match/moment. ❏ heart-to-heart n ရင္းရင္းႏီွးႏီွးပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း ေျပာဆိုျခင္း၊ ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ have a heart-to-heart with sb ❍ a heart-to-heart talk. ❏ heart-warming adj ၾကည္ႏူးအားရဖြယ္။ a heart-warming experience/ tale. ❏ in good heart [ IDM ] ( Brit ) က်န္းမာေပ်ာ္ရႊင္သည္။ She seemed in good heart when I saw her. ❏ in one's heart (of hearts) [ IDM ] အတြင္းစိတ္က။ He knew in his heart that he was doing the wrong thing. ❏ open/ pour out one's heart to sb [ IDM ] ရင္ဖြင့္သည္။ ❏ set one's heart on (having/ doing) sth [ IDM ] ဆႏၵ ျပင္းျပသည္။ She'd set her heart on going to university. ❏ take heart (from sth) [ IDM ] အားတက္သည္။ Industry can take heart from the most recent trade figures. ❏ take sth to heart [ IDM ] စိတ္ထိခိုက္သည္။ I took your criticism very much to heart. ❏ to one's heart's content [ IDM ] စိတ္ရိွသေလာက္။ ႀကိဳက္သေလာက္။ စိတ္ႀကိဳက္။ ❏ with all one's heart/ one's whole heart [ IDM ] သည္းလိႈက္အူလိႈက္။ တကယ့္ကို။ I hope with all my heart that you succeed.

Examples

1. I could hear his heart beating.
2. [have a heart] : Did you know he had a weak heart?
3. She held the child close to her heart.
4. My advice would be to follow your heart.
5. [have a kind/good/big heart] : Ted may not be rich but he’s got a good heart.
6. [heart of] : They live in the heart of the city’s medieval quarter.
7. A beautiful house deep in the heart of the English countryside
8. Artichoke hearts
9. [go/get to the heart of something] : These questions go to the heart of the current debate.
10. [be at the heart of something] : Cost-cutting is at the heart of their development plan.
11. A shirt decorated with little hearts
12. The six of hearts