A list of 30 most commonly used Love Idioms in English illustrated. Learn these idioms to expand your vocabulary list.
Love Idioms in English
A match made in heaven
- Meaning: A relationship/pairing in which each member/part perfectly complements the other
An item
- Meaning: A couple who are involved in an established relationship
Better half
- Meaning: Partner/spouse
Birds of a feather flock together
- Meaning: People who have the same outlook/tastes/interests will be found in each other’s company
Blind date
- Meaning: A meeting between two people who do not know each other, arranged in the hope that a romance might develop between them
Double date
- Meaning: A social occasion attended by two couples
Head over heels
- Meaning: Intensely in love
Love is blind
- Meaning: When you love someone, you no longer see/care about their faults
Love me, love my dog
- Meaning: If you love someone you must accept everything about them including their faults
Lovey-dovey
- Meaning: Romantic and affectionate (often excessively so)
Other half
- Meaning: Partner/spouse
Puppy love
- Meaning: Intense, new, and usually superficial love (often said in reference to love experienced by teenagers)
The apple of someone’s eye
- Meaning: The person someone adores
Those three little words
- Meaning: The words ‘I love you’
To be hung up on someone
- Meaning: To long for/be obsessed with someone
To fall for
- Meaning: To fall in love with
To (take a) fancy (to) someone
- Meaning: To become fond of/attracted to someone
To fix/set someone up
- Meaning: To arrange a meeting between two people in the hope that they might develop a romantic connection
To get hitched
- Meaning: To get married
To go Dutch
- Meaning: To equally share the cost of something (usually a meal)
To go steady with someone
- Meaning: To be in a relationship with someone
To have a crush on someone
- Meaning: To be attracted to someone
To hit it off
- Meaning: To immediately get on with someone
To pop the question
- Meaning: To propose marriage
To say ‘I do!’
- Meaning: To agree to marriage (in reference to making vows in the wedding ceremony)
To settle down with someone
- Meaning: To adopt a steady and stable lifestyle with someone (sometimes after marriage and with the intention of having children)
To take someone’s breath away
- Meaning: To inspire the feeling of awe in someone
To tie the knot
- Meaning: To marry
To whisper sweet nothings
- Meaning: To whisper words of affection
Two’s company, three’s a crowd
- Meaning: Two people, especially two people who are in love, should be left alone
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