For example, An hour before the picnic I heard thunder and my heart sank. This expression was first recorded in but was preceded in the 15th century by one's heart is at one's heels or in one's hose or in one's shoes.
The present and only surviving usage was first recorded in Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say. The paper describes a syndrome of heart distress referred to as "sinking heart' by Punjabis living in Bedford, and it discusses how far this condition correlates with Western psychiatric categories. The Punjabi model of "sinking heart' offers a culture-bound explanation of somatic symptoms.
It is based on culturally specific ideas about the person, the self and the heart and on the assumption that physical, emotional and social symptoms of pathology accompany each other. Get Word of the Day daily email!
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