tear/tug at (your) heartstrings

if something or someone tugs at your heartstrings, they make you feel strong love or sympathy.

It's the story of a lost child - guaranteed to tug at the heartstrings.

• come upon someone
• come upon something
• come up smelling like a rose
• come up smelling of roses
• come up to scratch
• come up up trumps
• come up with
• come up with something
• come what may
• come within an ace of
• come within an ace of doing something
• come within an ace of something
• come within an inch of
• come within an inch of doing something
• come within a whisker of
• come within a whisker of doing something
• come within a whisker of something
• come with the territory
• comings and goings
• commit something to memory
• commit to memory
• commit to memory something
• common ground
• common-or-garden
• common touch