Heart Swells, Heart Full, Heartstrings
When your heart swells, or your heartstrings are tugged. The
happy, exited feeling you get in your chest and throat when your heart feels overly full.
It sometimes appears in conjunction with "heartstrings", as in two Judy Garland standards, "Zing! Went the strings of my heart" (
Youtube) and "The Trolley Song" (also
Youtube):
After seven months of
marriage she still got a zing through her chest every time he smiled.
—Jennifer Lee, A Wild Goose Chase
Christmas,
2012A delicious zing of electricity rocketed around in my chest, and I smiled. . . . The zing came again, but this time it felt more tender. For a second I was worried I might cry. But then it passed.
—Katherine Howe, Conversion, 2014
My feelings are felt in my chest – a pang in my chest when I may be doing the wrong thing, a vibrant zing when my body approves, guiding me at times when logic fails.
—Yvette V. Lapayese, Mother-Scholar: (Re)imagining K-12 Education,
2012, quoting a study participant's journal
When the main characters finally get together and it's so heartwarming you could die.
When you talk about a crush or someone you really
like and your heard is bursting inside.