• kemsat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The expression should be “I had too much heart to tell him.” A person lacking heart would have told them, gleefully.

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      1 year ago

      No, “didn’t have the heart” doesn’t mean you don’t have heart, just means you have a different kind of heart, so it works fine.