heart in one's mouth, have one's

Be extremely frightened or anxious, as in When the plane was about to take off, my heart was in my mouth. This usage alludes to the heart beating so violently that it appears to leap upward. [Mid-1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Athanasios	-	Greek, Ancient Greek
Astarte	əs-TAHR-tee (English)	Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized), Biblical Greek
Samira (1)	-	Arabic, Persian
Marianna	mer-ee-AN-ə (English), mar-ee-AN-ə (English), mahr-YAHN-nah (Polish)	Italian, English, Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Greek
Braxton	['brækstən]
Menachem	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew