warm the cockles of one's heart

Gratify one, make one feel good, as in It warms the cockles of my heart to see them getting along so well. This expression uses a corruption of the Latin name for the heart's ventricles, cochleae cordis. [Second half of 1600s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Parker	['pa:kə]
Thor	THOR (English), TOR (Danish), TOOR (Swedish, Norwegian)	Norse Mythology, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Menno	ME-no (German)	Dutch, German
Liane	lee-AH-nə	German
Vasilios	-	Greek
Goibniu	-	Irish Mythology