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fall in love
Idioms and Phrases
Become enamored. This expression may be used either literally, as in John and Mary fell in love on their first date , or hyperbolically, as in I fell in love with that antique chest . [First half of 1500s]Example Sentences
Within months, they fell in love and decided they wanted to spend their lives together.
As John Blackthorne, a shipwrecked English navigator who is taken prisoner, he becomes involved in a battle among warlords seeking to become Japan’s supreme military ruler and falls in love with his married interpreter.
“It’s oddly still beautiful,” he said of the town with which his family fell in love.
"Maybe we fell in love together, maybe we had a good time together, but something brought you here. And I just want you to know, I appreciate the connection."
And what happened next, as the couple fell in love and paraded their relationship on the world stage, would involve elements of misogyny and racism that persist into the present day.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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