to one's heart's content

Idioms  

1. To one's complete satisfaction, without limitation, as in I've been eating strawberries to my heart's content, or The youngsters played in the sand to their hearts' content. Shakespeare used this expression in a number of his plays. [Late 1500s]

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to one's heart's content

There were seats on the edge of this bluff, and a large spring-board on which one might ride and jump to one's heart's content.

From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

How glorious it is to enjoy you to one's heart's content.

From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival

They are sufficiently human to be typical, and then there's the advantage that one can stare at them to one's heart's content, without being thought ill-mannered.

From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Adj.; full; in abundance &c. n. with no sparing hand; to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.

From Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Here there is a magnificent pier, and boating and fishing can be enjoyed to one's heart's content.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger