do someone's heart good

English

Verb

do someone's heart good (third-person singular simple present does someone's heart good, present participle doing someone's heart good, simple past did someone's heart good, past participle done someone's heart good)

1. (literary) make someone happy

   Synonyms: warm the cockles of someone's heart, gladden someone's heart

Further reading

• “do someone's heart good” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “do someone s heart good” (US) / “do someone s heart good” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “do someone's heart good”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.