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under someone's spell
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Idioms and Phrases
Fascinated or influenced by someone, as in I think he has our daughter under his spell . This idiom derives from the literal meaning of spell , “a word or formula that has magical power.†[Mid-1800s]Discover More
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There’s a theme of being haunted—by people, by memories—and of being under someone’s spell.
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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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