Love

Lesson 4

Sweet tooth

Title: Sweet tooth

Meaning: a great fondness for sweet-tasting foods

Example

My niece has a sweet tooth, as she continually begs me to make her something sugary

Light of one’s life

Title: Light of one’s life

Meaning: someone who makes one very happy

Example

Because he was there with him through everything, he saw him as the light of his life

Blind date

Title: Blind date

Meaning: to go on a date with someone you have never met before

Example

I'm going on a blind date with a guy that Jack knows from college

Warm-hearted

Title: Warm-hearted

Meaning: to be kind and loving

Example

My grandmother is a very warm-hearted person, everybody loves her

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Meaning: to miss and love someone more when they are not around

Example

The couple reunited after almost a year and understood that the absence had made their hearts grow fonder

Love me, love my dog

Title: Love me, love my dog

Meaning: to accept someone unconditionally

Example

My parents share a very straightforward relationship, it is like love me, love my dog. They accept each other exactly the way they are in person

Take breath away

Title: Take breath away

Meaning: astonish; surprise; amaze or astound somebody

Example

The ring literally took my breath away. There was a monster of a diamond on it

From the bottom of my heart

Title: From the bottom of my heart

Meaning: with sincere and deep feeling

Example

I am really happy with the new job and I mean that from the bottom of my heart

All is fair in love and war

Title: All is fair in love and war

Meaning: in situations of love and war you do not have to obey rules of reasonable behaviour

Example

In order to go on a date with Elle, Paul tricked her into believing that her boyfriend was seeing another woman. Well, all's fair in love and war

Match made in heaven

Title: Match made in heaven

Meaning: a combination of two people that is perfect in every way

Example

Jules and Nora are a match made in heaven. They love doing things together and cannot bear to be away from each other