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Idiom

love at first sight

Meaning

an instantaneous attraction

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“They met at a party and it was love at first sight.”

“She never believed in love at first sight until she saw him standing at the bus stop.”

“The novelist described their meeting as love at first sight, a sudden thunderbolt that rendered all caution irrelevant.”

Examples

simple

“They met at a party and it was love at first sight.”

contextual

“She never believed in love at first sight until she saw him standing at the bus stop.”

complex

“The novelist described their meeting as love at first sight, a sudden thunderbolt that rendered all caution irrelevant.”

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