have a heart of glass

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have a heart of glass

To have or be in a state of extreme emotional fragility or susceptibility, one that is easily influenced or affected by others. Poor Mary has a heart of glass; I don't know how she'll recover from Tom's refusal to go to the prom with her.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sender	-	Yiddish
Sappho	SAF-o (English)	Ancient Greek
Donatienne	-	French
Lachlan	-	Scottish, English (Australian)
ValÉRiane	-	French
Bogdan	BAWG-dahn (Polish), BOG-dahn (Serbian, Croatian), bog-DAHN (Romanian)	Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic