strike at the heart of
English
editVerb
editstrike at the heart of (third-person singular simple present strikes at the heart of, present participle striking at the heart of, simple past and past participle struck at the heart of)
- To attack the central or most important part of (something).
- 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38:
- Beeching's proposals struck at the heart of the railway industry's ethos and what it meant to be a railway worker.
References
edit- “strike at the heart of something”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.