allargare il cuore

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to widen the heart”.

Verb

allargàre il cuore (first-person singular present allàrgo il cuore, first-person singular past historic allargài il cuore, past participle allargàto il cuore, auxiliary avére)

  1. (idiomatic) to warm someone's heart
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Consolare una famiglia di contadini che aveva perso la propria casa a causa di un uragano... mi allargava il cuore.
      Comforting a rural family displaced by a storm... warmed my heart.
      (literally, “Consoling a family of peasants who had lost their house due to a hurricane... made my heart bigger.”)
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