Here are some idioms about love and what they actually mean.
IDIOMS ABOUT LOVE – Here are some phrases you are surely going to fall in love with and their actual meaning.
Idiomatic expressions are “group of words with meaning that is not related to the literal meanings of the words used in the phrase”. These expressions make paragraphs and sentences colorful, beautiful, and pleasing to the ears. The figurative meanings could be hard to fathom, tricky, and not obvious but they add color to the words spoken and written.
Check out some of these below:
- To love with all your heart and soul
- to express an absolute and great love for a person
- You are my one and only
- a vow to love faithfully
- Falling head over heels in love
- a deep, sudden, and absolute love for someone
- To be smitten
- be obsessed with someone
- Take my breath away
- you are so in love that even breathing becomes impossible to do
- A match made in heaven
- a kind of relationship that will certainly succeed
- To have a crush on someone
- this means being attracted to someone
- Love me, love my dog, and love me, warts and all
- loving someone completely – faults, flaws, and all
- Pop the question
- to finally ask the question or to pull off a proposal
- Love is blind
- loving someone without noticing the bad parts
- Puppy love
- this refers to a childhood crush or shallow romantic feelings
- To wear your heart on your sleeve
- this means being open in displaying your feelings for someone
- To fall head over heels
- to be completely and deeply in love with someone in an intense manner
- Love is a battlefield
- love is not easy and is like a battle you need to win
- Love at first sight
- it is the feeling of instant connection with someone you just met
- Star-crossed lovers
- a profound fate between two people to love each other but are faced with challenges that keep them apart
- their love is doomed from the start
- My better half
- refers to a person who complements you and makes you a better and complete person
- Love makes the world go round
- this refers to the power and force of love that keep us moving
- A love triangle
- three people are interested in and romantically attached to each other
- Lovesick
- having that intense longing for someone you love to the point that it already affects you negatively
- Love is a roller coaster
- refers to the challenges of being in love in terms of emotions – a ride of highs and lows and twists and turns
- To sweep someone off their feet
- being utterly amazing and dazzling that renders someone enchanted and infatuated
- To break someone’s heart
- to cause someone whom you are romantically involved with pain and heartbreak by being unfaithful or ending the relationship
- Opposites attract
- when two people who have different personalities or backgrounds are drawn to each other
- Don’t go breaking my heart
- telling someone not to hurt you