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love at first sight
Idioms and Phrases
An instantaneous attraction to someone or something. For example, With Peter and Constance, it was a case of love at first sight , or When Dave saw that car, it was love at first sight . This expression was already used by Chaucer for romantic attraction in Troilus and Cressida: “She loved right from the first sight.” The transfer to objects dates from the first half of the 1900s.Example Sentences
“It truly was love at first sight,” she says.
But my older sister was going, so I tagged along and it was love at first sight plus I'll admit I fancied Hugh Grant just a bit.
"When I saw that young man in a blue jumper it was love at first sight," Gisèle would reflect, much later.
He was "movie-star gorgeous," and it was pretty much love at first sight, she recalled.
It definitely wasn’t love at first sight for either of them.
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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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