Definition of Heart-to-heart

1. Noun. An intimate talk in private. "He took me aside for a little heart-to-heart"

Generic synonyms: Talk, Talking

2. Adjective. Openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness. "A heart-to-heart talk"
Exact synonyms: Candid, Open
Similar to: Artless, Ingenuous
Derivative terms: Candidness, Openness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heart-to-heart

heart-leaf
heart-leaved aster
heart-lung machine
heart-lung transplantation
heart-pounding
heart-poundingly
heart-rending
heart-rendingly
heart-robbing
heart-shaped
heart-shaped pelvis
heart-shaped uterus
heart-spoon
heart-stopping
heart-stoppingly
heart-to-heart (current term)
heart-warmer
heart-warming
heart-whole
heart-wounded
heart and lung transplant
heart and soul
heart aneurysm
heart antigen
heart arrest
heart atrium
heart attack
heart attacks
heart auscultation
heart beat

Literary usage of Heart-to-heart

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy (1897)
"HEART TO HEART. WHEN the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. I just want to say: I thank you ..."

2. Proceedings by National Baptist Educational Convention (1872)
"... and I think that any good teacher or good minister needs to feel that he is young and needs to go heart to heart in full sympathy with the young men who ..."

3. Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections from My Journal, 1884-1888 by Herriot Georgina Dufferin et Ava (1890)
"... Sir Lepel in his arms, saying to Sir Lepel, who, he knows, dislikes this exhibition of affection, ‘heart to heart, in spite of your English prejudices. ..."

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