have no heart for

Idioms  

1. Also, not have the heart for. Lack enthusiasm for, as in After the dog died he had no heart for taking long walks, or I should go through the family albums, but I don't have the heart for it. [Mid-1600s] Also see heart in it.

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Example Sentences

“Amy is left for him, and they would suit excellently, but I have no heart for such things, now. I don’t care what becomes of anybody but you, Beth. You must get well.”

From Literature

After a day when he had few customers and no tips, Raji would have no heart for books, but most of the time he was eager to learn.

From Literature

Mother says I have no heart for my own kind.

From Literature

It is marvellous how full of contradiction it makes us; we are first dull, and seek for wild and lonely places because we have no heart for the garden;254 presently we recover our spirits, and build an assembly room among the mountains, because we have no reverence for the desert.

From Project Gutenberg

Madame," I said, "I see plainly enough that you have no heart for my company, neither do I intend any idle intrusion.

From Project Gutenberg