at heart

Fundamentally, basically, as in He's a good fellow at heart. It was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1735): “But every Woman is at heart a Rake.”

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How to use at heart in a sentence

With the collection, Lagerfeld offered a young-at-heart interpretation of his high art.
Chanel, Back to the Future | Liza Foreman | July 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Did each determine to see all the good possible in the other, connections-by-marriage might become kin-at-heart.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) | Marion Harland
Did the poor mocked-at heart divine what might be then enacting?
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete | George Meredith

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