"play on someone's heartstrings" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "play on someone's heartstrings (third-person singular simple present plays on someone's heartstrings, present participle playing on someone's heartstrings, simple past and past participle played on someone's heartstrings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, “Heartstrings”, performed by Berlin",
          "text": "I love you more each day\nI love the music you play on my heartstrings\nI feel you in every way\nReach for touch, you play on my heartstrings",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, K Webster, Becoming Her Series",
          "text": "“Why can't you just tell me? You're my only friend.”\nMy words play on her heartstrings like I hoped they would, because her features soften.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To produce strong emotions of sadness or pity in someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-play_on_someone's_heartstrings-en-verb-JQ6OUYHk",
      "links": [
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ],
        [
          "sadness",
          "sadness"
        ],
        [
          "pity",
          "pity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To produce strong emotions of sadness or pity in someone."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pull at someone's heartstrings"
        },
        {
          "word": "tug at someone's heartstrings"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "play on someone's heartstrings"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played on someone's heartstrings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "play on someone's heartstrings (third-person singular simple present plays on someone's heartstrings, present participle playing on someone's heartstrings, simple past and past participle played on someone's heartstrings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, “Heartstrings”, performed by Berlin",
          "text": "I love you more each day\nI love the music you play on my heartstrings\nI feel you in every way\nReach for touch, you play on my heartstrings",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, K Webster, Becoming Her Series",
          "text": "“Why can't you just tell me? You're my only friend.”\nMy words play on her heartstrings like I hoped they would, because her features soften.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To produce strong emotions of sadness or pity in someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ],
        [
          "sadness",
          "sadness"
        ],
        [
          "pity",
          "pity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To produce strong emotions of sadness or pity in someone."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pull at someone's heartstrings"
        },
        {
          "word": "tug at someone's heartstrings"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "play on someone's heartstrings"
}