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- out of the goodness of heart
out of the goodness of heart
*out of the goodness of one's heart
Fig. simply because one is kind. (*Typically: be something ~; do something ~.) What are you going to pay me? You don't expect me to do this out of the goodness of my heart, do you?
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Theobald | | THEE-ə-bawld (English) | English (Rare), Ancient Germanic |
| Zemfira | | - | Tatar, Bashkir, Azerbaijani, Literature |
| Donatello | | do-nah-TEL-lo | Italian |
| Rastus | | RAS-təs | English (Rare) |
| Inzhu | | - | Kazakh |
| Keenan | | - | Irish |