10 English Love Expressions English Vocabulary Speaking

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and idioms you’d like to hear about

today and I’ll also you had some really

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eye and that is idioms and expressions

relating to love oh how sweet this is

you really are a romantic Bunch aren’t

you so today we’re going to talk through

10 idioms that relate to love and I

think this is going to be a really

lovely positive one hopefully we’ll

leave the lesson with a warm fuzzy

feeling so this effort is going to help

you improve your vocabulary

it will also help you with your speaking

because you’ll be able to communicate

with native speakers and make yourself

understood more effectively and it will

also help you with your listening

because you’ll be able to understand

what natives are trying to say to you

when they use these expressions however

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let’s get started with the love and

romance idioms the first one is a match

made in heaven a match made in heaven

what do you think it means have a little

thing a match made in heaven is a couple

that is seemingly perfect they are a

perfect match the relationship is likely

to be very very successful they’re very

good for each other very good for each

other it’s what we all aspire to be with

our partners and match made in heaven

the next one number two is a double date

a double date and you go on a double

date what do you think it is a double

date is a date involving two couples so

if you and your partner go on a date or

out for dinner or to the cinema with

another friend and their partner that’s

a double date

it’s a really nice thing to do okay the

next one number three is to be an item

to be an item sounds really obvious of

course I’m an item I’m an object don’t

treat me as an object don’t treat me as

an object to be an item means that

you’re involved with someone so it might

be used in a situation like a YouTube an

item are you two official yet do you

really boyfriend and girlfriend or

boyfriend a boyfriend or girlfriend

girlfriend or whatever and you’d say

yeah we’re an item there’s a nice one

quick clang number four you might have

heard this before it is to be head over

heels in love and this just means to be

really really in love with someone and

you can also fall head-over-heels in

love I fell head

in love with him number five is to pop

the question to pop the question I’ve

never had anyone pop the question to me

in person I’ve had a couple of email

questions and butler pop the question is

to ask for somebody’s hand in marriage

it means to ask somebody if they would

like to be your husband or wife and then

number six after popping the question

you then hopefully tie the knot to tie

the knot and to tie the knot is to get

married so my mum and dad

tied the knot 27 years ago oh my god the

next one puppy love

oh my god this one is so cute and for my

entire childhood I thought that this was

just that you love baby dogs but it’s

not puppy lug popular puppy love is

adolescent romance you’re a teenager

you’re young and you feel like the most

important most in love most romantic

person in the world with your boyfriend

or girlfriend and no nothing else

matters all that matters is your love

for that person as puppy love because

it’s not necessarily not gonna stay real

because feelings can feel really really

strong especially when you’re young but

it’s not maybe the most logical thing on

earth the next one number eight a blind

date a blind date what is a blind date

now it could be a date that can’t see

but not in a in an idiomatic sense it’s

a blind date is when somebody else

chooses somebody for you and set you up

and somebody sets you up a good phrasal

verb to set up they set you up on a date

with somebody that you don’t know and so

you both arrive at this date and it’s

the first time you’ve met each other so

that’s a blind date it can be quite a

risky thing to leave your love life in

the hands of somebody else number nine

to be on the rocks to be on the rocks

this one’s not so nice if your

relationship is on the rocks it means

there’s problems with the relationship

and you might break up soon it’s not

going well so you definitely don’t want

your relationship to be on the rocks but

if

is on the rocks then hopefully you’ll be

able to sort it out

another good phrasal verb bear sort it

out and fix the problem and the final

one to get hitched to get hitched to get

hips is exactly the same as to tie the

knot it means to get married right guys

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