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heart of stone

Idioms

A very cold and unfeeling nature, as in You'll get no sympathy from her; she has a heart of stone. This idea dates from ancient times and in English appeared in the Bible (Job 41:24). [Early 1600s]

Example Sentences

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You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

Even a heart of stone would have been moved by Root celebrating his hundred by pulling on Thorpe's trademark headband.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025

Victorian London’s brattiest wit, Wilde once remarked, of Dickens’s “The Old Curiosity Shop,” that “one must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2018

It may have been the most visceral display of mental agony I've seen in tennis, and anyone who didn't feel for the guy at that moment must have a heart of stone.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 17, 2017

I pointed to her as she stood clinging to her father's arm as much for support as in appeal, so beautiful, so pitiful, so weak; a spectacle to move a heart of stone.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James

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