fall in love

1. Become enamored. This expression may be used either literally, as in John and Mary fell in love on their first date, or hyperbolically, as in I fell in love with that antique chest. [First half of 1500s]

Example Sentences

She said it was there that her father first fell in love with Lady Branson and "turned up at the shop every day for months, buying stuff he didn't want or need."

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In a 2018 interview with BBC Hindi, he said his father wanted him to study, but he fell in love with films early on and wanted to be a hero.

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And all those people who insisted that they couldn’t stand a city boy fell in love with the rich, braggadocious New Yorker.

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“I fell in love with the Jets in 1969, so it’s loyalty,” he says.

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“I fell in love with the Jets in 1969, so it’s loyalty,” he says.

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