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love at first sight



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Idioms and Phrases

An instantaneous attraction to someone or something. For example, With Peter and Constance, it was a case of love at first sight , or When Dave saw that car, it was love at first sight . This expression was already used by Chaucer for romantic attraction in Troilus and Cressida: “She loved right from the first sight.” The transfer to objects dates from the first half of the 1900s.
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Example Sentences

My attachment to the song became especially pronounced last Christmas, when I had my first love-at-first-sight experience.

It was a sudden smite,—one of those flash-in-the-pan, love-at-first-sight affairs.

She recollected her love-at-first-sight for the pretty bride, and well-nigh regarded the friendship as a romance of her girlhood.

Of these she selects, entirely on the love-at-first-sight principle, a very handsome young man who passes in the street.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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