warm the cockles of someone's heartとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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warm the cockles of someone's heart (三人称単数 現在形 warms the cockles of someone's heart, 現在分詞 warming the cockles of someone's heart, 過去形および過去分詞形 warmed the cockles of someone's heart)

1. (idiomatic) To provide happiness, to bring a deeply-felt contentment.
   • 1671 John Eachard:^[3]

     This contrivance of his did inwardly rejoice the cockles of his heart.

   • 1871, H F. Manley, A Continental Tour, Together with Notes and Anecdotes of Diplomatic Life:

     My sandwiches had gone the way of all good sandwiches, and no wine remained to warm the cockles of my heart, for my flask had long been emptied

   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 214:

     “Surname?” ¶ “Blagodarev.” ¶ A handy name, easy to get hold of, and the ready way he gave it warmed the cockles of the heart.

同意語

• (to provide happiness): warm someone's heart

関連する語

• heart-warming

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