cockles of the heart
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Adapted from Dan Savage’s much darker “DJ’s Homeless Mommy,” set alight to warm the cockles of the heart and make s’mores over.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019
In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters, in a way the readers can only hope will warm the intercultural cockles of the heart of C. P. Snow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cock′le-hat, a hat bearing a scallop-shell, the badge of a pilgrim; Cock′le-shell, the shell of a cockle: a frail boat.—The cockles of the heart, the heart itself.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It ought to warm the cockles of the heart of critics.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
And it's the quietest spoken word that reaches the inner cockles of the heart.
From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
