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 also the delightful shows of the amusement pier where one could go and see Pierrots to one's heart's content, if one can ever get enough of Pierrots; I never can.

From Seven English Cities by William Dean Howells

Yet one is hopeful, and lies counting the chances of there being larger fish in the water here, and of being able to fish to one’s heart’s content.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

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

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

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

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget