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not have the heart to



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Idioms and Phrases

Be unable to bring oneself to say or do something, as in He didn't have the heart to tell her the cat had died . [Mid-1600s] Also see have a heart .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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not have one's heart in itnot having any