Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “pull on/at heartstrings“ and it is a phrase meaning “to evoke one’s deepest feelings/emotions”.
Example Sentence: There is no need to pull on heartstrings any further. All terminal diseases are hideous (horrific/dreadful). Dementia’s twist is the way it comes for the very soul of you, brutal and enigmatic (mysterious) in equal measure. Only now are we starting to catch up with it. This is where we can move from heartstrings to numbers. Governments and businesses have always responded more readily to those.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article This latest Alzheimer’s drug breakthrough is reason for hope – and further funding and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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