a cuore aperto

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “at open heart”. Compare French à cœur ouvert.

Prepositional phrase

a cuore aperto

  1. (surgery) open-heart
    intervento a cuore aperto ― open-heart surgery
  2. (idiomatic) sincerely, from the bottom of one's heart
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