in the flush of

Idioms  

1. Also,. During a sudden rush of a strong positive feeling regarding something, as in In the first flush of victory he decided to take all his friends to dinner. This expression employs flush in the sense of “a bout of emotion or passion.” [c. 1600]

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Example Sentences

It’s relatively easy to have a glorious garden in the flush of spring and early summer.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2023

When we're fully in the flush of a new, deep romance we tend to find little wrong with our lover.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021

How, then, to explain the Athens I find now, returning in the flush of spring with my old journals to reconnect with the city of my recollections?

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2018

His proposal — for what he called, in the flush of victory, a "magic carpet" for L.A. — flew off and was never seen again, except in the pages of a few architectural history books.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2016

To be struck dead in the flush of life, with all his passions in full bloom upon him, was a hard decree.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various