Heart idioms

Idioms involving the heart are often to do with...

• Love

• Feelings and emotions

• Medical jargon

• Dogs

If someone is tugging at your heartstrings they are

• Making you feel emotional

• Making you feel angry

• Making you feel happy

• Making you feel guilty

If you do something in a heartbeat do you...

• do it slowly?

• do it carefully?

• take your time over it?

• do it quickly?

If you cross your heart are you...

• swearing?

• doing surgery on yourself?

• promising?

• threatening someone?

If you are wearing your heart on your sleeve you are...

• wearing a heart patch on your cuff

• open with your emotions

• always crying

• feeling sad most of the time

If you have your heart set on something you

• are extremely focused on something

• are being open about your emotions

• are in love with someone

• really love something or someone

If you have a heavy heart it means

• You are overweight

• You have an irregular heartbeat

• You feel sadness or regret

• You have just split up with your boyfriend/girlfriend

"The girl's heart was in the right place" means...

• She was fit and healthy

• She often said hurtful things to upset others

• She was passionate about something

• She tried to do the right thing even though she sometimes made mistakes

He was the heart and soul of the school means

• He didn't really care about the school

• He was obsessed with the school

• He was the most passionate person about the school

• His office was right in the middle of the school

if my heart wasn't in this quiz it would mean

• I wasn't open about my emotions

• I felt sadness when I did it

• I wanted to do the right thing

• I didn't really care about it