Dic: close to your heart, dear to your heart, near to your heart

• Animal rights is an issue very close to my heart.
• Just know that those who care about you do know it and will keep you close to heart and prayer.
• She dedicates the next eighteen years to bring up her daughter Kumud and inculcate in her the idealistic values she's held close to heart herself.

1. If something is dear(or close) to someone's heart, it is very important to them.
2. PHRASE : N inflects, oft v-link PHR | If something such as a subject or project is close to your heart or near to your heart, it is very important to you and you are very interested in it and concerned about it.

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