to your heart's content
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› If you do something to your heart's content, you do something enjoyable for as long as you want to do it: You've got a whole week to yourself and you can read to your heart's content.Intensifying expressions
(Definition of to your heart's content from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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