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Meaning: (idiomatic)Of aperson:havingthesamedisposition,feelings, oropinionsasoneself.Synonyms:after one's heart,after one's own soul1526, [William Tyndale, transl.],The Newe Testamẽt[…](Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany:Peter Schöffer],→OCLC,The Actes off the Apostlesxiij:[22],folio clxxiij, verso:[H]e [God] ſet vppeDavidto be their kynge⸝ to whome he gave witnes⸝ ſaynge: I have founde David the ſonne ofJeſſe⸝ a manafter myne awne hert⸝ he ſhall fullfyll all my will.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,1 Samuel13:14, column 2:But now thy [Saul's] kingdome ſhall not continue: theLordhath ſought him a manafter his owne heart, and theLordhath commanded him to bee captaine ouer his people, becauſe thou haſt not kept that which theLordhath commanded thee.1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym;Washington Irving], chapter III, inA History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.[…], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford,[…],→OCLC, book III,pages141–142:[…]I turn with great complacency to the fourth class of my readers, who are men, or, if possible, women,after my own heart; grave, philosophical and investigating; fond of analyzing characters, of taking a start from first causes, and so hunting a nation down, through all the mazes of innovation and improvement.1900,Homer, “Book IV”, inSamuel Butler, transl.,The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the Original, London: A[rthur]C. Fifield,→OCLC,page41:Look,Pisistratus, manafter my own heart, see the gleam of bronze and gold—of amber, ivory, and silver. Everything is so splendid that it is like seeing the palace of Olympian Jove. I am lost in admiration.1905,[George] Bernard Shaw, “Major Barbara”, inJohn Bull’s Other Island and Major Barbara: Also How He Lied to Her Husband, London:Archibald Constable & Co., published1907,→OCLC, Act II,page234:Professor Cusins: you are a young manafter my own heart.1913December –1914March,Edgar Rice Burroughs, “New Allies”, inThe Warlord of Mars, Chicago, Ill.:A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published September 1919,→OCLC,page133:I found the father of Thuvia a manafter my own heart, and that night saw the beginning of a friendship which has grown until it is second only to that which obtains between Tars Tarkas, the green Jeddak of Thark, and myself.2017,David Walliams[pseudonym; David Edward Williams],Bad Dad, London:HarperCollins Children’s Books,→ISBN:“I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boyafter my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become a master criminal like me. One day all this could be yours.”; (idiomatic)Of asituationorthing:accordingto, orappealingto, one's owndesire,liking, ortaste.Synonyms:after one's heart,after one's own soul1885,Hugh Conway[pseudonym; Frederick John Fargus], “Gastronomic and Erotic”, inA Family Affair[…], volume I, London:Macmillan and Co.,→OCLC,pages244–245:In this particular party, small as it was, culture, learning, art, arms, landed interest and hereditary sway were properly personified. It was, indeed, a representative gatheringafter the Talberts' own hearts.1927,M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “My Choice”, inMahadev Desai, transl.,The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press,→OCLC, part I,page119:During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thingafter its own heart.[…]This was my first hearty meal since my arrival in England.
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