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at heart
1. In accordance with one's deepest feelings or desires. He's not interested in this accounting job because he's an artist at heart.
2. Fundamentally or intrinsically. Nicole is a kind person at heart—you just need to spend some more time with her.
at heart
1. as what someone cares about the most Your academic adviser should have your best interests at heart. I'm an English teacher at heart but also a writer.
2. in the most basic way He was at heart a conservative man.
at heart
1. Fundamentally, basically, as in He's a good fellow at heart. It was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1735): "But every Woman is at heart a Rake."
2. In one's deepest feelings, as a great concern, as in The governor has the party's best interests at heart. [Early 1700s]
at heart
In one's deepest feelings; fundamentally.