Ah, LOVE! It’s universal but expressing it can sometimes be difficult, especially when you’re learning a new language. English, with its twists and turns, can seem even more challenging when it comes to matters of the heart. But do not fear, language learners! Dive into the delightful world of English idioms about love, and you’ll soon be swooning your way through conversations like a native speaker.
Get ready to have butterflies in your stomach, sweep someone off their feet, and maybe even kiss and make up – all while expanding your English vocabulary in a fun and meaningful way. So, let’s fall head over heels for the fascinating world of English love idioms!
28 Love Idioms and Phrases with their Meanings:
Fall head over heels: To fall deeply and quickly in love with someone. It suggests a complete loss of control and a powerful rush of emotions.
Love at first sight: The experience of falling in love with someone the moment you see them.
Be smitten: to be deeply affected with strong feelings of attraction, affection, or infatuation. It implies a significant impact on your emotions and thoughts.
Be swept off your feet: To be completely charmed and captivated by someone. To make someone feel overwhelmed with love and excitement, often suddenly.
Have a crush on: to experience romantic feelings for someone, usually without expressing them and often temporary. Crushes can occur at any age, but is more commonly used for younger people experiencing their first strong romantic feelings.
Have butterflies in your stomach: Feeling nervous excitement when you’re around someone you like. It feels like you have a thousand butterflies flying inside of you … tickling you.
Love you to the moon and back: To love someone very much. You know because the distance between here and the moon is a lot or a large amount.
Can’t get enough of someone: To love spending time with someone and not wanting to be apart. You want to spend even MORE time with that person.
Be madly in love: To be passionately and intensely in love with someone. The feeling you have can make you a little crazy, often to the point of behaving irrationally.
Love me, warts and all: To love someone completely, including with all their flaws and imperfections. You accept the person exactly how they are.
Like two peas in a pod: When two people are very similar and are perfectly suited to each other. This is often used for couples who seem perfectly matched.
Made for each other: To be ideally suited to one another. Destined to be together.
Puppy love: A youthful, often immature form of love or innocent infatuation.
Love is blind: To be unable to see or just overlook someone’s flaws or faults because you love them.
Go on a blind date: A date where the two people have not previously met before. They go on this date without knowing who the other person is. It is often organized by mutual friends, family or workmates.
Play hard to get: To intentionally act less interested in someone than you actually are, in hopes of making them more attracted to you. To act as if you are not easily won over or interested, to make someone work for your affection. (Rob’s note: Please don’t be this type of toxic person.)
Grow old together: To spend the rest of your life with someone, aging together in a relationship … and maybe get to a point where you have to change their adult diapers or at least have constant conversations about medication for the parts of the body that constantly hurt.
Love conquers all: To believe that love can overcome any obstacle or challenge.
It is meant to be: Believing that two people are destined or fated to be together.
Through thick and thin: To stay together through the good times and the bad times. To remain loyal or supportive no matter the circumstances.
Break someone’s heart: To cause someone deep emotional pain, usually by ending a relationship.
Kiss and make up: To reconcile after a disagreement, argument or fight, often with affection.
Lovebirds: A term for a couple who are very affectionate and frequently demonstrate their love for each other.
To tie the knot: An informal way of saying to get married.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder: The thought that the more you are apart and miss someone, the stronger your love for them becomes. Being apart can strengthen love.
Opposites attract: People with different personalities or characteristics can be drawn to or attracted to each other. A calm and quiet guy might be attracted to a spontaneous, outgoing person.
A match made in heaven: A relationship in which each person perfectly complements the other. The couple are so well-suited and ideal that it seems that they were destined to be together.
Wear your heart on your sleeve: To be open and transparent about your feelings and emotions, especially in matters of love.
I hope this list gives you a good overview of English idioms about love! Remember, some idioms may have slightly different meanings depending on the context, so pay attention to how they are used.