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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

... dictated that morning was the fortnightly form-letter, to be mimeographed and sent out to a thousand "prospects." It was diligently imitative of the best literary models of the day; of heart-to-heart-talk advertisements, "sales-pulling" letters, discourses on the "development of Will-power," and hand-shaking house-organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of Business. He had painfully ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... 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

... her only friend; he was her father, her brother. To whom could she tell her troubles if not to him? And taking courage at the painter's silence who finally was moved by her tears, she recovered her boldness and expressed her wish. He must go to Monteverde, give him a good, heart-to-heart lecture, so that he would be good and not make her suffer. The doctor respected him highly; he was one of his greatest admirers; she was certain that a few words of the master would be enough to bring him back like a lamb. He must ...

— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... heart-to-heart speaking between these two, no sharing of burdens. The man must go his way and the woman hers, each with a ...

— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley

... the carriage, Walter felt that the time had come to give and receive explanations. Holsma was of a contrary opinion. He was friendly enough, but showed no inclination for heart-to-heart confidences. Walter's confusing story was ...

— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli