tug at heartstrings

tug at your heartstrings

also pull on your heartstrings

to cause strong feelings of affection or sympathy He looked into his son's smiling eyes and felt a tug on his heartstrings.

Usage notes: sometimes used with other verbs: The stories he told plucked at your heartstrings.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ashok	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali
VÜSala	-	Azerbaijani
Alethea	al-ə-THEE-ə, ə-LEE-thee-ə	English
Shafiq	-	Arabic
Nest	-	Welsh
Elisha	i-LIE-shə (English), ee-LIE-shə (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew