cross my heart and hope to die (English, verb)
expansion: cross my heart and hope to die (third-person singular simple present crosses my heart and hopes to die, present participle crossing my heart and hoping to die, simple past and past participle crossed my heart and hoped to die)
Senses:
glosses: Added to a promise or a statement to show how serious one was about being honest in what one said
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
Forms:
form: crosses my heart and hopes to die
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crossing my heart and hoping to die
tags: participle
present
form: crossed my heart and hoped to die
tags: participle
past
form: crossed my heart and hoped to die
tags: past
form: cross my heart
tags: alternative
form: cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye
tags: alternative