tobacco heart
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tobacco heart
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The "irritable heart," the "tobacco heart," a life of promise impaired or blighted.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
By a tobacco heart it was meant that his heart was so badly affected that it did not perform its action regularly and properly.
From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish
There was too much officious paternalism in the air, too many admonitions and not enough lightness of heart—of tobacco heart if necessary.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer
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