Valentines Day Idioms

What is an Idiom?

Idioms: words or phrases that mean differently than their literal meaning

Example: It's raining cats and dogs

It doesn't mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky. It means that it's raining really hard.

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Tie the Knot

• to get married

• to break up

• to have a baby

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Pop the question

• to have weakness for someone

• to ask someone to marry you; to propose

• to start a family

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Have a crush on someone

• to love someone as a friend

• to be obsessed with a person

• to have romantic feelings for someone

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Head over heels

• to break up

• to be in love with someone very much

• a relationship with many arguments

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On the rocks

• to begin to love someone romantically; usually unexpectedly

• to experience one-sided love

• used to talk about problems in a relationship

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Blinded by love

• so madly in love with someone that one cannot see the person's negative side

• two people who are extremely compatible and will have a great life together

• to love somebody deeply that the rest of the world doesn't matter

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Wear your heart on your sleeve

• to love someone as a friend

• to show other people how you're feeling

• to love many people at the same time

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Take one's breath away

• to be extremely impressive or beautiful

• to have bad breath

• to dislike someone

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To have a soft spot

• to have extreme dislike for someone

• to see someone only as a friend

• to have weakness for someone

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