warm the cockles of someone's heart

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /wɔːm ðə ˈkɒk.əlz əv ˌsʌm.wənz ˈhɑːt/    美 /woɹm ðə ˈkɑk.əlz əv ˌsʌm.wənz ˈhɑɹt/|/woɹm ðə ˈkɔk.əlz əv ˌsʌm.wənz ˈhɑɹt/|/woːm ðə ˈkɔk.əlz əv ˌsɐm.wənz ˈhɐːt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Especially of food or drink (particularly an alcoholic beverage): to cause someone to feel deeply warm and comfortable; to comfort, to satisfy. dated,idiomatic,intransitive
    — Here a fresh-looking barmaid serves them each with a glass of early purl as they stand before the fire, coachman and guard exchanging business remarks. The purl warms the cockles of Tom's heart and makes him cough.
  2. To provide someone with a deep feeling of contentment or happiness. dated,figuratively,idiomatic,intransitive
    — Novv, although he ſays in his Preface, that he vvould not much boaſt of convincing the vvorld, hovv much I vvas miſtaken in vvhat I undertook; yet, I am confident of it, that this Contrivance of his did invvardly as much rejoyce the Cockles of his heart, as he phanſies, that vvhat I vvrit did ſometimes much tickle my Spleen.

词形变化

warms the cockles of someone's heart present,singular,third-person warming the cockles of someone's heart participle,present warmed the cockles of someone's heart participle,past warmed the cockles of someone's heart past

词源

PIE word
*ḱḗr
Either from:
* the similarity of a closed cockle (“European bivalve mollusk of the family Cardiidae”) to a heart; or
* a corruption of Latin cochleae (“ventricles”) in cochleae cordis (“ventricles of the heart”).
The term cockles of [someone’s] heart is first attested in 1671: see the quotation.
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