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1. urband+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-11-10 23:07:36
Why does he walk off at the end? Did he still not believe her do you think?
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2. adrian+p2[view] [source] 2024-11-10 23:35:49
>>urband+(OP)
He also said, "My heart just dropped". That's a curious thing to say.
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3. averag+L5[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-11-11 00:23:23
>>adrian+p2
I guess as in 'dropped a beat'. The news was so surprising his heart stopped momentarily.
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4. JawsOf+QL[view] [source] 2024-11-11 11:01:34
>>urband+(OP)
I was going to explain the way i saw it, but i erased it and decided it's probably best not to give my thoughts in case he or someone in his life came across the comments out of respect.
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5. pbhjpb+zP[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-11-11 11:41:21
>>averag+L5
It's the opposite, usually. "My heart dropped" is a sense of doom, foreboding, a realisation of oncoming cataclysm. Like 'as I saw the second plane come into view my heart dropped'.

Of course, people don't use language in a consistent way, and people will use terms thinking they mean e.g. their antonym.

It's probably a common initial reaction to learning of impending parenthood. Life will never be the same. Initially one might only see the looming challenge of the mountain to climb.

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