warm the cockles of someone's heart
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to warm the cockles of someone's heart
- (idiomatic) To provide happiness, to bring a deeply-felt contentment, possibly derived from the similarity in appearance of the heart valves to the cockle, a bivalve mollusk of the family Cardiidae.
