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at heart

Fundamentally, basically, as in He's a good fellow at heart . It was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1735): “But every Woman is at heart a Rake.”
In one's deepest feelings, as a great concern, as in The governor has the party's best interests at heart . [Early 1700s]

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They know who has Iran’s interests at heart and who is trying to save his own skin.

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"The reality is our core values at heart of it just stand for two very different things and it makes working together incompatible," Frost told the BBC.

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Even as “Hacks” has expanded its scope over the course of four sharp, hilarious seasons, the showbiz comedy remains a two-hander at heart.

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When Reubens first hit upon the childlike, toy-obsessed Pee-wee character at the Groundlings, Newman said, “He knew he had something he could draw on so easily, because he was a 10-year-old boy at heart.”

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The whole idea was to fill the jobs with the kind of people Russell Vought thinks have America's best interests at heart.

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Atharva-Veda atheism

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