cockles of the heart
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Adapted from Dan Savage’s much darker “DJ’s Homeless Mommy,” set alight to warm the cockles of the heart and make s’mores over.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019
In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters, in a way the readers can only hope will warm the intercultural cockles of the heart of C. P. Snow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cock′le-hat, a hat bearing a scallop-shell, the badge of a pilgrim; Cock′le-shell, the shell of a cockle: a frail boat.—The cockles of the heart, the heart itself.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"The cockles of the heart, and the apple of the eye have always seemed absurd figures of speech to me," she then remarked, putting the unguent into her basket.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
Flashes of wit glanced here and there, and how they came home and warmed the cockles of the heart.
From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony
