Hello and welcome to the English Like A Native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 24,
day 2 of Your English Five A Day, the second season.
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So, let's begin as we always do with a snapshot.
The two puppies were virtually inseparable,
always cuddling and playing together, enough to melt your heart.
Watching them share a blanket was so touching that tears began to well up in my eyes.
Even their petty squabbles over toys were adorable.
Alright, let's start with the idiom melt your heart.
To melt your heart.
Melt, we spell M-E-L-T, your heart, H-E-A-R-T.
To melt your heart means that someone makes you feel warm and affectionate emotions.
It's basically when you see something that makes you go, aww, then your heart has been melted.
It might be the way that a child looks at you with their big goo-goo eyes and tells you,