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
Mcghee	[mə'gi:]
Shahd	-	Arabic
Bohdan	boh-DAHN (Ukrainian)	Czech, Ukrainian
Lera	-	Russian, Ukrainian
Anselmo	-	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Jakub	YAH-kuwp (Polish)	Polish, Czech, Slovak