heart in one's mouth, to have one's Idiom, Proverb

a stone's throw

a short distance, 25 metres A deer came into the yard, just a stone's throw from our door.

back on one's feet

physically healthy again My mother is back on her feet again after being sick with the flu for two weeks.

ball is in someone's court

be someone else's move or turn The ball was in the union's court after the company made their final offer.

beat one's brains out

try very hard to understand or do something.

blow one's top

become extremely angry.

break someone's heart

make someone feel very disappointed/discouraged/sad.

breathe one's last

to die The man finally breathed his last after a long illness.

by the skin of one's teeth

barely succeed in doing something.

card up one's sleeve

another plan or argument saved for later I thought that the negotiations would be unsuccessful but my boss had another card up his sleeve that we didn't know about.

catch one's death of cold

become very ill (with a cold, flu etc) The little boy was told to be careful in the rain or he would catch his death of cold.

heart in one's mouth, to accept one's

To be abashed or acutely apprehensive. This appellation has annihilation to do with eat one’s affection out but rather alludes to the heart-pounding and asthmatic activity of abrupt fear. It was already acclimated by Homer in the Iliad (ca. 850 b.c.), “My affection leaps to my mouth,” and appeared in English in Nicholas Udall’s adaptation of Erasmus (1548): “Hauyng their herte at their verai aperture for feare.” Mark Twain put it added colorfully: “My affection flew into my aperture so aback that if I hadn’t clapped my teeth calm I should accept absent it” (Life on the Mississippi, 1874).Learn more: have, heart

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