with open arms

1. Enthusiastically, warmly, as in They received their new daughter-in-law with open arms. This term alludes to an embrace. [Mid-1600s]

Example Sentences

As Soviet ships arrived in Cuba, Fidel Castro welcomed his new guests with open arms.

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Allen spends the next few bars remembering how strange she found this interaction, but brushes it off, welcoming her new life as an actress with open arms until the song is interrupted by a phone call.

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Luckily, moviegoers are welcoming these returns to the big screen with open arms.

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Sciver-Brunt's dismissal moved 2.5 degrees off the pitch, not dissimilar to movement you would expect from an off-spinner, and the England skipper's reaction with open arms and a look of disbelief said it all - they probably had not prepared for nor expected this.

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“I was welcomed with open arms,” she said.

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