Idiom: sweep someone off their feet
Meaning
Idiom: sweep someone off their feet
- to make someone fall quickly and completely in love with you
Example sentences
— My brother has perfected the art of sweeping girls off their feet—and then dumping them a few months later.
— My husband swept me off my feet when I met him while on holiday in Belize.
— I met this guy on the plane and he swept me off my feet but I found out later he was actually married with children.
— I'm going to Paris for two months and I hope someone will sweep me off my feet.
— My daughter met someone who's swept her off her feet and we're waiting impatiently to meet him because it sounds very serious.
— Oh, to be young again and swept off my feet by a charming young man.
— Our grandfather met our grandmother in junior high school and sweep her off her feet by buying her a rose every day for one week.
— Everyone was so jealous when this German guy swept me off my feet—until he disappeared and I never heard from him again.
Synonyms
- put someone under a spell
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