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
Jotham	JO-thəm (English)	Biblical
Wincenty	veen-TSEN-ti	Polish
Ramesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Nepali
Benedetto	-	Italian
Amyntas	-	Ancient Greek
Kemen	-	Basque