- his heart missed a beat
- he was momentarily startled
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
his heart missed a beat
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heart\ miss\ a\ beat — • heart skip a beat • heart miss a beat 1. the heart leaves out or seems to leave out a beat; the heart beats hard or leaps from excitement or strong feeling. Often considered trite. When Paul saw the bear standing in front of him, his heart… … Словарь американских идиом
heart\ skip\ a\ beat — • heart skip a beat • heart miss a beat 1. the heart leaves out or seems to leave out a beat; the heart beats hard or leaps from excitement or strong feeling. Often considered trite. When Paul saw the bear standing in front of him, his heart… … Словарь американских идиом
heart skip a beat — or[heart miss a beat] 1. The heart leaves out or seems to leave out a beat; the heart beats hard or leaps from excitement or strong feeling. Often considered trite. * /When Paul saw the bear standing in front of him, his heart skipped a beat./ 2 … Dictionary of American idioms
heart skip a beat — or[heart miss a beat] 1. The heart leaves out or seems to leave out a beat; the heart beats hard or leaps from excitement or strong feeling. Often considered trite. * /When Paul saw the bear standing in front of him, his heart skipped a beat./ 2 … Dictionary of American idioms
heart — W1S1 [ha:t US ha:rt] n ↑artery, ↑brain, ↑fatty, ↑tissue, ↑heart, ↑kidney, ↑intestine, ↑intestine2, ↑small, ↑large, ↑liver, ↑lung, ↑muscles, ↑stoma … Dictionary of contemporary English
beat — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 rhythm ADJECTIVE ▪ regular, rhythmic, steady ▪ pounding ▪ disco, funky, hip hop, techno … Collocations dictionary
beat — [[t]bi͟ːt[/t]] ♦ beats, beating, beaten (The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense.) 1) VERB If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard. [V n] My wife tried to stop them and they beat her... [V n to n] They… … English dictionary
beat — v., n., & adj. v. (past beat; past part. beaten) 1 tr. a strike (a person or animal) persistently or repeatedly, esp. to harm or punish. b strike (a thing) repeatedly, e.g. to remove dust from (a carpet etc.), to sound (a drum etc.). 2 intr.… … Useful english dictionary
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ectopic beat — a heartbeat due to an impulse generated somewhere in the heart outside the sinoatrial node. Ectopic beats are generally premature in timing; they are classified as supraventricular if they originate in the atria and ventricular if they arise from … Medical dictionary
