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change of heart en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) A change of one's opinion, belief or decision.
   • The Keswick-Carlisle, Bury-Rawtenstall, Watford-Croxley Green and Haltwhistle-Alston services had run out of friends, but the hit-listed Oldham-Rochdale and Inverness-Kyle of Lochalsh lines would benefit from a change of heart. 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
   • Unfortunately, in 1979 Lipburger was convicted of erecting unapproved street signs and jailed for ten weeks. Following a change of heart, the government later invited Lipburger to move his construction to Vienna’s Prater Park, where it still sits today. 2022, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, “Motivations” (chapter 3), in Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 99:
   • He quit work on Friday, but on Monday he had a change of heart and decided to come back.
   • We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row / We could stay inside and play games, I don't know / And you could have a change of heart 1974, “Rikki Don't Lose That Number”, performed by Steely Dan:
   • "I thought you were loyal to the cause, Paul." “I was,” Grayson answered. “Then I saw the kind of people who share your vision, and I had a change of heart.” 2008, Drew Karpyshyn, “Epilogue”, in Mass Effect: Ascension, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 341:

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Relateds

change of mind · cold feet · change of tack

Translations (10)

pl zmiana zdania (change of opinion) · fi mielenmuutos (change of opinion) · fr revirement (change of opinion) · cmn 改变心意 (change of opinion) · cmn 改变看法 (change of opinion) · es cambio de opinión (change of opinion) · de Sinneswandel (change of opinion) · es cambio de parecer (change of opinion) · is sjá sig um hönd (change of opinion) · ru переду́мать (change of opinion)