after one's own heart

To one's own personal liking, as in He's very patient with the slower pupils; he's a teacher after my own heart. This idiom appears in the King James Bible of 1611 (I Samuel 13:14). [Late 1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gwenevere	GWEN-ə-vir	English (Rare)
Ghayth	-	Arabic
Sipho	-	Southern African, Xhosa
Leander	lee-AN-dər (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Drousilla	-	Biblical Greek
Harmony	HAHR-mə-nee	English