have one's heart in the right place

Meaning: (idiomatic)To havegoodintentions.My brother doesn't always do the right thing, but hehas his heart in the right place.1823, Andrew Cherry,The Travellers‎[1]:Mr. Cherry has thought proper to place most of his compliments to England in the mouth of an Irishman, a facetious gentleman, full of generosity and blunders, “with a head that may err, buta heart in the right place"1835,Thomas Chalmers,On the Evils which the Established Church in Edinburgh Has Already Suffered[…]‎[2]:No one amongst them, as far as I know, withhis heart in the right place, stood up and asked in council, What is to become of the poor who cannot pay these high rents?1895,Marie Corelli, chapter I, inThe Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire[…], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published1896,→OCLC,page 9:"Why Jack, old fellow, I wronged you!" I exclaimed,—"your heart is in the right placeafter all."

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