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Heart-to-heart

noun

An intimate talk in private.

adjective

Openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness. Synonyms: candid, open. "An open and trusting nature" , "A heart-to-heart talk"

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"Heart-to-heart" Quotes from Famous Books

... Teddy, the pair of doubters, seemed to feel somewhat better after this little heart-to-heart talk with Ned. The leader of the Wolf Patrol had a happy faculty for inspiring others with some of his own confidence, which is one of the finest qualities a scout ...

— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson

... shoes came a week later. Hoping much from the well-known curative effects of fine feathers, he managed to treat the affair with dignified silence. The only time he allowed full play to his feelings Mrs. Gribble took to her bed for two days, and the doctor had a heart-to-heart talk with him ...

— Night Watches • W.W. Jacobs

... and to be entertained by them. They come on invitation, not as a matter of form, and they stay long enough to put by questions of weather, clothes, and servant-girls, and to get right down to good old-fashioned visiting. Real heart-to-heart talks are everyday occurrences in country visits, while they are exceptional in city calls. We meant to make much of our friends at Four Oaks, and to have them make much of us. We have discovered new values even in old friends, since ...

— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter

... only did Browning depart from his custom of choosing people of minor note to figure in his dramatic monologues. In "At the 'Mermaid'" he ventures upon the consecrated ground of a heart-to-heart talk between Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and the wits who gathered at the classic "Mermaid" Tavern in Cheapside, following this up with further glimpses into the inner recesses of Shakespeare's mind in the monologues "House" and "Shop." It is a particularly ...

— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke