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Where does “warm the cockles of someone's heart” come from?

warm the cockles of someone's heart (English) comes from Latin cochleae — nominative plural of cochlea; genitive singular...

warm the cockles of someone's heart (English): To provide happiness, to bring a deeply-felt...

Definitions

  1. To provide happiness, to bring a deeply-felt...

Ancestry of “warm the cockles of someone's heart”, step by step

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1Latincochleaenominative plural of cochlea; genitive singular...
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