Usually means: Sincere promise, sworn with seriousness.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word cross my heart and hope to die:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cross my heart and hope to die: Merriam-Webster
  2. cross my heart and hope to die, cross my heart and hope to die: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cross my heart and hope to die: Wiktionary
  4. Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (film), Cross My Heart and Hope to Die: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. cross my heart and hope to die: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. cross my heart and hope to die: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cross my heart and hope to die: Legal dictionary
  2. cross my heart and hope to die: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross my heart and hope to die: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross my heart and hope to die: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross my heart and hope to die: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross my heart and hope to die: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cross my heart and hope to die)

verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) Added to a promise or a statement to show how serious one was about being honest in what one said

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