change of heart

plural changes of heart

1. idiomaticA change of one's opinion, belief or decision.

   He quit work on Friday, but on Monday he had a change of heart and decided to come back.

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   We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row / We could stay inside and play games, I don't know / And you could have a change of heart

   1974, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “Rikki Don't Lose That Number”, performed by Steely Dan

   "I thought you were loyal to the cause, Paul." “I was,” Grayson answered. “Then I saw the kind of people who share your vision, and I had a change of heart.”

   2008, Drew Karpyshyn, “Epilogue”, in Mass Effect: Ascension, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 341

   The Keswick-Carlisle, Bury-Rawtenstall, Watford-Croxley Green and Haltwhistle-Alston services had run out of friends, but the hit-listed Oldham-Rochdale and Inverness-Kyle of Lochalsh lines would benefit from a change of heart.

   2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69

   Unfortunately, in 1979 Lipburger was convicted of erecting unapproved street signs and jailed for ten weeks. Following a change of heart, the government later invited Lipburger to move his construction to Vienna’s Prater Park, where it still sits today.

   2022, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, “Motivations” (chapter 3), in Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 99

   [Terence] Tao is not the only mathematical eminence with a rather sudden change of heart.

   2026 September 14, Joseph Howlett, “25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline”, in Scientific American