after one's own heart

Idioms

To one's own personal liking, as in He's very patient with the slower pupils; he's a teacher after my own heart. This idiom appears in the King James Bible of 1611 (I Samuel 13:14). [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

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This will be an adventure after one's own heart.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison

She is quite after one's own heart; give her my best love, and tell her that I always think of her with pleasure.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by Austen-Leigh, William

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