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Re:IMG_0416 by averageRoyalty on Sunday November 10, 2024 @07:23PM (#42103596)
I guess as in 'dropped a beat'. The news was so surprising his heart stopped momentarily.
Re:IMG_0416 by pbhjpbhj on Monday November 11, 2024 @06:41AM (#42106436)
It's the opposite, usually. "My heart dropped" is a sense of doom, foreboding, a realisation of oncoming cataclysm. Like 'as I saw the second plane come into view my heart dropped'.

Of course, people don't use language in a consistent way, and people will use terms thinking they mean e.g. their antonym.

It's probably a common initial reaction to learning of impending parenthood. Life will never be the same. Initially one might only see the looming challenge of the mountain to climb.