Wouldn't it make more sense if we said "from my whole heart " or "from the top of my heart".
Bottom somehow doesn't sound right. Anyone know where this phrase originated from and why?
2007-03-21 17:22:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The top of your heart is where it pumps the blood but the bottom is where the love is stored =)
2007-03-22 10:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it stems from the Bible. It is in one of the gospels where a principal character uses the phrase; from the depth of his bowels. Now that just sounds gross. I think what happened is somewhere down the line, someone decided that the heart was actually the seat of all emotion. It is after all, your life blood and without it you die. Therefore the most essential of feelings and the most important that would course through your veins would be love. Why the bottom...who knows.
2007-03-22 00:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by The Y!ABut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what you say is perfectly logical. i think what has occurred is what happens in many others cases. precedent sets course and
everyone follows for fear of breaking ground. i have included some etymology of the beginnings to show the evolution of the phrase. thank you! cordial Look up cordial at Dictionary.com
c.1386, from M.Fr. cordial, from M.L. cordialis "of or for the heart," from L. cor (gen. cordis) "heart" (see heart). Original sense of n. was "medicine, food, or drink that stimulates the heart;" adj. meaning "heartfelt, from the heart" is c.1477.
2007-03-22 12:17:10 · answer #3 · answered by tennis4746 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We use this phrase - Most sincerely, unreservedly. For example, I want to thank all of my supporters from the bottom of my heart, or She wished, from the bottom of her heart, that her daughter would get well. In English this term appeared in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer's Communion service (1545): "If one ... be content to forgive from the bottom of his heart"; in Latin it dates back to Virgil. -
2007-03-22 01:58:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was originally 'from the heart of my bottom' but that raised a lot of eyebrows.
2007-03-23 05:19:37 · answer #5 · answered by bubbacornflakes 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From the bottom of my ash....
naaahhhh , that don't sound right.
2007-03-22 20:44:39 · answer #6 · answered by Einstein 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
" The top of my liver" just never caught on.
2007-03-22 19:09:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋