<span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> <span class="searchmatch">strings</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">tugs</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> <span class="searchmatch">strings</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">tugging</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> strings...
<span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> <span class="searchmatch">strings</span> <span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> heartstrings (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">tugs</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> heartstrings, present participle tugging...
one's <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> upon sick <span class="searchmatch">at</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> single-<span class="searchmatch">hearted</span> soldier's <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> is in <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> out steal <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> strike <span class="searchmatch">at</span> the <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> of sweetheart...
sway to act; to behave (figurative) to touch (<span class="searchmatch">someone</span> emotionally); to stir up; to <span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> (one's <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> <span class="searchmatch">strings</span>) to shake; to quake Selected forms of ᠠᡧᡧᠠᠮᠪᡳ...
pull, and <span class="searchmatch">tug</span>, drawing an analogy between heartstrings and the <span class="searchmatch">strings</span> of a musical instrument. <span class="searchmatch">heart</span>-<span class="searchmatch">strings</span>, <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> <span class="searchmatch">strings</span> play on <span class="searchmatch">someone's</span> heartstrings...
схва́тывать за́ душу/за ду́шу ― sxvátyvatʹ zá dušu/za dúšu ― to <span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> one's <span class="searchmatch">heart</span>-<span class="searchmatch">strings</span> Conjugation of схва́тывать (class 1a imperfective transitive)...
hand схвати́ть за́ душу/за ду́шу ― sxvatítʹ zá dušu/za dúšu ― to <span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> one's <span class="searchmatch">heart</span>-<span class="searchmatch">strings</span> 1860, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “II”, in Первая любовь; English...
move slightly (figurative) to touch (<span class="searchmatch">someone</span> emotionally); to stir up; to move; to <span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> (one's <span class="searchmatch">heart</span> <span class="searchmatch">strings</span>) (figurative) to affect (people's interests);...
hand хвата́ть за́ душу/за ду́шу ― xvatátʹ zá dušu/za dúšu ― to <span class="searchmatch">tug</span> <span class="searchmatch">at</span> one's <span class="searchmatch">heart</span>-<span class="searchmatch">strings</span> In this meaning, the alternative perfective хвати́ть (xvatítʹ)...
(intransitive, obsolete) To be dragged along; to drag. To pull <span class="searchmatch">at</span> something; to <span class="searchmatch">tug</span>. 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad: […] No...