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A honey trap 🍯🪤

A deceptive scheme in which a person is enticed into a compromising romantic or sexual situation, often for the purpose of espionage, blackmail, or other illicit gain.

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A labor of passion 🛠️❤️

A project or undertaking that requires significant effort and dedication, primarily driven by one's deep interest or love for it rather than by monetary gain or external obligation.

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A prized possession 🏆🤲

Something that is highly valued and deeply cherished by its owner, often for sentimental reasons.

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A slow burn 🐌🔥

Something that develops gradually over a long period, building intensity, emotion, or impact over time.

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Bear hug 🐻🫂

A bear hug is a very tight and strong embrace, often given with affection or reassurance.

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For the love of it ❤️💎

To do something purely for the intrinsic pleasure, passion, or enjoyment it brings, rather than for external rewards or obligations.

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Have stars in one's eyes ⭐👁️

To be full of naive optimism, dreams, or infatuation, especially concerning fame, success, or romance.

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In your blood ➡️👤🩸

To possess a characteristic, skill, or passion that feels inherent, natural, and deeply ingrained, often suggesting a hereditary connection.

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My heart aches ❤️🗜️

This expression describes a feeling of deep emotional pain, sorrow, or profound longing, often so intense it feels like a physical discomfort in the chest.

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Promise the moon 🤝🌕

To make a grand, often unrealistic or impossible, promise that one cannot genuinely deliver.

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Put your heart into it 🖐️❤️➡️

To perform a task or endeavor with complete passion, dedication, and sincere effort.

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Through thick and thin 🚇🧱🧵

To remain steadfastly loyal and supportive during both good times and difficult periods.

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Wanting the impossible 🙏🌙

To desire or seek something that is utterly unattainable or cannot be achieved.

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Our heart is in the right place ❤️➡️📍

To have genuinely good intentions and a benevolent disposition, even if one's actions or the outcomes are not always perfect or well-executed.

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A heart-to-heart ❤️➡️❤️

An honest, intimate, and often serious conversation between two people.

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A heavy heart ⚓❤️

A feeling of deep sadness, sorrow, or grief.

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A siren song 🧜‍♀️🎵

An alluring, tempting appeal that is ultimately dangerous or deceptive.

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A summer fling ☀️💔

A brief and often casual romantic or sexual relationship that occurs during the summer months, typically understood to be temporary.

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A summer friend ☀️🧑

A person who is only friendly and supportive during easy or pleasant times, but disappears when difficulties arise.

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A sunshine friend ☀️✨🧑

A person whose presence consistently brings joy, positivity, and brightness into one's life.

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A true calling 🧭📞

A profession, vocation, or life's work that a person feels deeply destined for and inherently passionate about, often suggesting a sense of purpose.

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Absence makes the heart forget 🚶🛠️❤️🗑️

This phrase suggests that when people are separated for an extended period, their emotional attachment and memories of each other tend to diminish.

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Apple of one's eye 🍎👁️

A person or thing that someone cherishes above all others and holds very dear.

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Apron strings 🎽🧵

Apron strings refer to the metaphorical ties of a mother's overprotective influence or a child's dependence, typically implying an adult son who remains overly attached to his mother.

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Blood is thicker than water 🩸🪵💧

Family relationships and loyalties are stronger and more important than those with friends or others outside the family.

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Break my heart ✂️❤️

To cause someone deep emotional pain, usually due to a significant personal loss or disappointment, especially in love.

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Break someone's heart ✂️❤️

To cause someone profound sadness or emotional distress, often due to a disappointment in love or a close relationship.

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Catch someone's eye 🤏🧍👁️

To attract the attention of another person, often visually.

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Catfish 🐱🐟

To deceive someone by creating a false online identity to engage in a romantic or personal relationship with them.

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Change of Heart 🔄❤️

A significant alteration in one's opinion, attitude, or intention, often leading to a different decision or course of action.

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Clingy child 🐒👶

A child who exhibits excessive emotional or physical dependence on a parent or caregiver, often displaying reluctance to separate.

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Close to one's heart 🤏❤️

Something that is deeply cherished, highly valued, or personally very important to an individual.

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Codependent relationship 🔗👶❤️

A type of dysfunctional relationship where one person's excessive caretaking and self-sacrifice enable another's irresponsibility, addiction, or immaturity, often at the expense of their own well-being.

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Cry on someone's shoulder 😭💪

To seek comfort and emotional support from another person by sharing your sadness or troubles.

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Deeply woven into the fabric ⬇️🧵👕

To be an essential and intrinsic part of something, making it fundamental to its nature or existence.

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Easy on the eyes 🪶⬆️👀

Visually pleasant or attractive to behold.

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Engage in repartee 🤝💬💡⚡

To participate in a conversation characterized by quick, witty, and often playful exchanges of remarks.

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Follow your star 👣⭐

To pursue one's destiny, highest aspirations, or true calling, guided by an inner conviction or a sense of fate.

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Forbidden fruit 🚫🍎

Something that is desired precisely because it is prohibited or considered off-limits.

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From the bottom of my heart 👇❤️

This phrase expresses extreme sincerity, indicating that the speaker's feelings or gratitude are profoundly genuine and deeply felt.

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Gentle as a dove 🪶🕊️

Extremely mild, kind, and peaceful in nature or demeanor, exhibiting a quiet and harmless disposition.

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Get stars in your eyes 🖐️⭐👁️

To be filled with optimistic dreams, unrealistic hopes, or intense admiration, often to the point of being naive.

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Give someone the eye 🖐️👁️

To look at someone in a way that expresses romantic or sexual interest.

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Give the shirt off one's back 🤲👕✂️🧍

To be extremely generous and willing to sacrifice greatly for others, even at personal cost.

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Glow up ✨⬆️

A significant and often positive transformation in a person's appearance, confidence, or overall well-being.

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Green-eyed monster 🟢👁️👹

The feeling of intense jealousy or envy personified as a destructive force.

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Hand in hand 🖐️🖐️

To be closely connected, interdependent, or occurring together; it can also literally mean people holding each other's hands.

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Hanky panky 🧣🃏

Hanky panky refers to mischievous, illicit, or secretive activity, often implying romantic or sexual escapades, or minor trickery.

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Have a heart of gold 🖐️❤️🥇

To be exceptionally kind, generous, and compassionate.

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Have a wandering eye ↔️👁️

To be attracted to or look admiringly at people other than one's committed partner, often implying a tendency towards unfaithfulness.

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Have eyes for no one else ✋👀➡️🚫👥

To be exclusively attracted to or devoted to a single person, seeing no other as a romantic or desired partner.

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He who has luck, leads his bride to bed on Sunday 🧍🍀🚶‍♂️👰🛏️🗓️

This phrase suggests that true fortune or luck leads to smooth, happy resolutions, especially in romantic or personal matters, implying that a lucky person will effortlessly achieve their desired outcome, like a joyous marriage.

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Head over heels 👤⬆️🦶

To be completely and utterly in love with someone, often to the point of infatuation.

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Heart on your sleeve ❤️👕

To openly and visibly display one's emotions or feelings for all to see.

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Ignite a passion ⚡🔥

To spark intense enthusiasm, strong emotional interest, or deep devotion in someone for a particular activity, subject, or cause.

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In your feels 🫀🖐️

To be experiencing a strong emotional state, often characterized by sentimentality, sadness, or introspection.

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It takes two to tango 🤏✌️💃🕺

Many situations, especially conflicts or complex interactions, require the involvement and cooperation of two parties, implying shared responsibility.

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It's never too late to mend 🚫⏰🩹

It is always possible to correct mistakes, improve a situation, or reconcile relationships, no matter how much time has passed.

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Joined at the hip 🔗🦵

Describes two people who are exceptionally close and spend almost all their time together.

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Karma 🖐️🔄

The principle that every action, good or bad, intentionally performed by a person will inevitably result in corresponding consequences for them, often in the future.

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Like a moth to a flame 🦋➡️🔥

To be irresistibly and often dangerously attracted to someone or something, despite potential harm or negative consequences.

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Love at first sight ❤️1️⃣👁️

The immediate experience of feeling a strong romantic attraction to someone the very moment you first see them.

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Love knows no distance ❤️🧠🚫📏

True affection and connection can overcome any physical separation or geographical barrier between people.

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Love you to the moon and back ❤️🧍🌕↩️

This expression conveys an immense and enduring love, implying a love so vast it extends an impossible distance and returns, symbolizing boundless affection.

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Make eyes at ✋👀🎯

To look at someone in a way that suggests romantic or sexual interest, often playfully or flirtatiously.

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Melt someone's heart 🫠🫀

To cause someone to feel deep tenderness, compassion, or love, often overcoming their initial coldness or indifference.

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Mother hen 👩‍🍼🐔

A 'mother hen' is a person, typically a woman, who is overly protective, watchful, and nurturing towards a group of people, often treating them like her own children.

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My everything 🖐️🌎

The person or thing that is considered most important and central to someone's life, happiness, or existence.

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My heart's desire ❤️🎯

The thing, person, or aspiration that one longs for above all else.

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My one and only ☝️🥇

It refers to a person or thing that is unique, irreplaceable, and singularly cherished above all others.

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No man is an island 🚫👨🏝️

People are inherently connected to others and cannot thrive in isolation.

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On the rebound 🪃

Experiencing a new relationship or emotional state shortly after the end of a previous one, often as a coping mechanism.

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Out of one's league ⬆️👤🪜

To be beyond someone's capabilities, financial reach, or social standing, often implying they are not a suitable match or competitor.

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Out of sight, out of mind. ➡️👁️➡️🧠

When something or someone is no longer visible or present, it or they are easily forgotten.

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Paradise 🌳🌈

A place or state of perfect happiness and bliss, often conceived as a garden or heaven.

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Patch things up 🩹🧩⬆️

To repair a disagreement or mend a strained relationship, often by resolving conflicts or making amends.

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Play hard to get 🎭🪨🤏

To act aloof or uninterested in someone, often in a romantic context, to make oneself seem more desirable and increase their pursuit.

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Plenty of other fish in the sea 🐠🐡🌊

This phrase suggests that if one romantic relationship or opportunity ends, there are many other potential partners or chances available.

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Poetic justice 📜⚖️

A situation in which someone experiences a fitting or ironic consequence for their actions, often negative, as if delivered by fate or karma.

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Pour your heart out 🍾❤️

To express your deepest feelings and emotions completely and candidly to someone.

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Pure as the driven snow 💨❄️

To be completely innocent, chaste, or morally undefiled, like fresh, untouched snow.

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Put oneself in someone else's shoes ✋👤📥👥👟

To imagine what it would be like to be in another person's situation or position, in order to understand their feelings or perspective.

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Red as a rose 🔴🌹

To be extremely and vividly red, often used to describe a person's complexion, lips, or something intensely colored.

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Roast someone 🔥🧑

To playfully or humorously criticize or make fun of someone, often in front of an audience, usually as a sign of affection or respect.

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Rub shoulders with 🖐️💪

To associate closely with someone, especially those who are famous, powerful, or influential, often in a social setting.

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Scarlet woman 👗👩

A scarlet woman is a derogatory term for a promiscuous or immoral woman, often implying a prostitute or an adulteress.

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Set your heart on 📌❤️🎯

To strongly desire or be determined to achieve a particular goal or object.

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Side by side 👤🤏👤

Next to each other, often implying closeness, comparison, or simultaneous action.

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Simp 🙇‍♂️🎁❤️‍🔥

A simp is a person, often a man, who displays excessive flattery and subservience to another person, typically to gain romantic or sexual attention.

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Sing someone's praises 🎤🧑🏆

To express strong admiration and approval for someone's achievements or qualities.

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Smother love 🫸❤️

"Smother love" refers to an excessive and overprotective affection that stifles an individual's independence and personal development.

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Star-crossed lovers ⭐✖️👩‍❤️‍👨

Two people whose relationship is doomed by fate, misfortune, or external forces beyond their control.

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Stormy relationship ⛈️🧑‍🤝‍🧑

A relationship characterized by frequent arguments, intense emotions, and periods of turmoil.

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Sweet talk someone's ear off 🍬🗣️👂✂️

To excessively flatter and persuade someone with charming words, often until they are tired of listening.

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Sweet tooth 🍬🦷

A strong liking or craving for sweet foods and desserts.

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The face that launched a thousand ships 👩👉1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🚢

A person whose extraordinary beauty or allure is the cause of a major, often destructive, event or conflict.

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The light of one's life 💡👤❤️

Someone who brings immense joy, happiness, and purpose to another person's existence.

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Tie the knot ✋🪢

To get married or enter into a marital union.

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To be someone's whole world 🧍🟢🌎

To be the most important person or thing in someone's life, central to their existence and happiness.

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To build bridges 🔨🌉

To create or improve relationships, understanding, and communication between individuals or groups, especially after a period of disagreement or separation.

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To hold dear 🖐️💎

To value something greatly and care deeply for it, often with sentimental attachment.

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Warm and fuzzy 🔥🐑

A feeling of sentimental pleasure, contentment, or emotional comfort.

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Wax lyrical 🌔🎶

To speak or write about something with great enthusiasm, emotion, and often at considerable length.

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Whirlwind romance 🌀💖

A rapid, intense, and often brief romantic relationship that unfolds with great speed and passion.

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With open arms 👐💪

To welcome someone or something with great enthusiasm, warmth, and acceptance.

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Worship the ground one walks on 🙏🌎🚶

To adore someone so completely that even their presence, and everything associated with them, is considered sacred and perfect.

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To forgive and forget 🕊️✒️💨

To completely pardon someone for a past offense and then never think about it again.

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Nearest and dearest 🪕❤️

Those people who are closest to you in terms of family and affection.

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There are plenty of fish in the sea 🐟🌊➕

Don't worry if you miss an opportunity or lose someone, because there are many more similar opportunities or people available.

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Wishing on a star 🌠✨🙏

To hope for something to come true, often by making a wish to a star seen in the night sky.

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Making someone feel seen 👀👤

To make a person feel understood, validated, and acknowledged in their unique experiences and emotions.

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A prodigal son 👨‍👦🚶‍♂️💸😭🙏

A son who leaves home, espouses a wasteful lifestyle, and then returns seeking forgiveness.

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The pride and joy 🦁💖🌟

Someone or something that is deeply cherished and admired.

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Give someone wings 🎁🕊️

To inspire, encourage, or enable someone to achieve more than they thought possible.

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Feed the fantasy 🍽️💭

To indulge or encourage a wish, desire, or belief, often one that is unrealistic or unlikely to come true.

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Win someone over 🏆💖

To persuade someone to like or support you or your ideas after they were initially unwilling.

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It's a tangled web 🕸️🔗😩

A complicated situation involving deceit, intrigue, or difficult relationships.

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Smother with love 🫂❤️

To show excessive affection or attention, often to the point of being overwhelming.

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Let it linger 🕰️🍃

To allow something (like a feeling, thought, or smell) to continue to exist or be present for a long time.

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Make a social call 🚪🤝🗓️

To visit someone briefly primarily for the purpose of polite conversation and maintaining a social relationship.

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Hang out 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🌳

To spend time in a relaxed way with someone or in a particular place.

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Follow one's bliss 🚶‍♀️✨😊

Pursue what makes you genuinely happy and fulfilled in life.

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Lean on each other 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🤝

To rely on one another for emotional or practical support during difficult times.

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Lovers' quarrel 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨⚔️

A disagreement or argument, usually temporary, between two people who are romantically involved.

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Be all heart ❤️💖

To be very kind, compassionate, and generous.

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The wanderlust is kicking in 🚶‍♀️🌍✈️

The strong desire to travel and explore new places is beginning to feel overwhelming.

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Content with one's lot 😌🏠

Satisfied with the circumstances of one's life, without desiring more.

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Lean on me 🚶‍♂️🤝

To rely on someone for emotional or practical support during a difficult time.

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Breaking bread ✂️🍞🤝

Sharing a meal with others, signifying fellowship and peace.

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Give away freely 🎁➡️

To offer something without expecting anything in return, often as a gift or donation.

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Keeping vigil over 👁️‍🗨️🔒

To watch over someone or something, especially during a period of illness, death, or danger.

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Tough love 💪❤️

Kindness and compassion shown by being firm or strict in the face of someone's bad behavior or a difficult situation.

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Feeling yourself 😌😊💖

To feel confident, attractive, and generally good about oneself.

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A peace offering 🕊️🎁

A gift or action given to resolve a conflict or restore a good relationship.

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May your path be smooth 🛣️✅

I wish you an easy and uneventful journey through life or a specific endeavor.

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Be everything to someone 👑💖🌍

To be the most important person in someone's life, providing all their needs and desires.

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Give and take ↔️🤝

The practice of making compromises and concessions to reach an agreement or maintain a relationship.

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The family fold 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🐑

The family fold refers to one's own family or the group of people who are part of a particular family.

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Chosen family 👑👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

A group of people, unrelated by blood or law, who form a close-knit bond and provide mutual support like a traditional family.

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Hold it dear 🤝💖

To value something or someone highly and cherish it.

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Having a laugh 😂🗣️

To be amused or to be joking with others.

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Utterly captivated 🗣️✨

Completely enthralled and fascinated by something or someone.

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Make one's peace 🤝🕊️

To end a disagreement or conflict with someone, especially by apologizing or forgiving.

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A shoulder to cry on 💪😭

A sympathetic person who offers comfort and emotional support during difficult times.

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Unconditional friend 🤝❤️

A friend who offers unwavering loyalty, support, and acceptance, regardless of circumstances or personal flaws.

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Rapt attention 🦅👀

Complete and overwhelming focus on something, as if you are captivated.

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Be a mama's boy 👩‍👦

A man who is overly attached to or influenced by his mother.

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Emotional crutch 🎭🚶

A person, object, or activity that provides comfort and support to someone experiencing emotional distress, often to an unhealthy degree.

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To mend fences 🔨🪕

To repair a relationship that has become strained or broken.

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Kill them with kindness 🔪💖

To overcome someone's hostility or bad behavior by treating them with extreme gentleness, generosity, and politeness.

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To be hung up on someone 🪢👤

To be obsessed with or overly fixated on a person, often to the point of preventing oneself from moving on.

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To build rapport 🏗️🤝

To establish a positive and trusting relationship with someone.

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A warm fuzzy feeling ☕️🤗

A pleasant, comforting, and emotionally positive sensation.

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Tale as old as time 📖⏳🕰️

Describes a situation, story, or feeling that is very common and has happened throughout history.

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Don't worry about a thing 🚫😟🙏

This phrase is used to reassure someone that a situation is under control and no problems are expected.

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A spirit of reconciliation 👻🤝

An attitude or feeling that encourages making peace and resolving disagreements between people or groups.

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A time for peace 🕒🕊️

A period when conflict or war ends and tranquility or harmony prevails.

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A messy entanglement

A complicated, difficult, or confusing situation involving problems, people, or emotions.

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A pillar of strength 🏛️💪

A person who is very dependable and provides strong emotional support during difficult times.

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Looking for a unicorn 👀🦄

Searching for something rare, unique, or impossibly perfect, often in a romantic or professional context.

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Coming from the heart 🚶❤️

To be expressed or done with genuine sincerity and deep emotion.

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A white knight

A person who does a conventionally virtuous act in order to draw attention to themselves with the intention of having sex with the person they are helping.

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A listening ear 👂

Someone who is willing to listen sympathetically to your problems.

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Made for each other 🤝❤️

Two people are perfectly suited to be in a relationship and have a strong mutual connection.

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Heartstring tugger ❤️🪢😥

Something that evokes a strong feeling of sadness or sympathy.

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Two ships passing in the night 🚢🚢🌃

Two people who meet briefly and then go their separate ways without forming a lasting connection.

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A dream come true 💭✅

Something that is greatly desired has finally happened.

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Hold someone dear 🫂❤️

To care about someone very much and feel a strong affection for them.

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Take under your wing 🤲🏿🪽

To protect, support, and guide someone, especially someone younger or less experienced.

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Beside oneself with grief 🚶‍♀️😭

To be overwhelmed by sadness to the point of losing composure or control.

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Showing off 🎭✨

Behaving in a way intended to attract attention and admiration from others.

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Choked up 😭🎤

To become unable to speak because you are emotional.

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Keep the flame alive 🔥❤️

To maintain enthusiasm, passion, or affection for something or someone.

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Be a social butterfly 👩‍🔬🦋

To be a very sociable person who attends many different parties and events.

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Stuck on someone 📌❤️

To be unable to stop thinking about or being attracted to a particular person.

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It is a labor of love 💪❤️

Something done with great dedication and affection, not for financial reward but for personal satisfaction.

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Honeymoon period 🍯🌙💑

The initial stage of a relationship or new endeavor characterized by harmony, enthusiasm, and a lack of significant problems.

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Heat things up 🔥🌡️

To make a situation more exciting, intense, or romantic.

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I feel you 🧑‍🤝‍🧑❤️

This phrase expresses empathy or understanding of someone else's situation or emotions.

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Break it off ✂️💔

To end a romantic relationship or engagement.

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Play the field 🎲 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 🙅🏻‍♀️

To be romantically or sexually involved with multiple people simultaneously without committing to any one of them.

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Lead someone on 🚶➡️❓

To deceive or mislead someone, especially by making them believe something that is not true, often regarding affection or intentions.

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Sow your wild oats 👩‍🌾🌾

To engage in a period of experience and unrestrained behavior, particularly in a sexual or social context, before settling down.

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Touch a chord 👉🎶

To evoke a feeling of sympathy or understanding or to remind someone of something.

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Paragon of virtue 👑😇✨

Someone who is a perfect example of goodness and morality.

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Slide into my DMs ➡️📥

To send someone a private direct message, typically with a romantic or flirtatious intent.

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Near and dear 📍❤️

Extremely important to someone, often because they have a strong emotional attachment to it or them.

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My heart goes out to you ❤️‍🩹🤝😔

This phrase expresses sympathy and compassion for someone experiencing hardship or sadness.

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Embrace with open arms 🫂👐

To welcome or accept someone or something enthusiastically and without reservation.

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Sweet talk someone 🍬🗣️

To persuade or charm someone by using flattering or insincere words.

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Drop one's defenses 🚶‍♀️🛡️❌

To stop being guarded or protective and allow oneself to be vulnerable.

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The bloom is off the rose 🥀

The initial excitement or attractiveness of something has faded, revealing its less appealing qualities.

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Letting someone go 👋🚶

To end a relationship, employment, or other connection with someone.

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Give someone their flowers 🖐️💐

To give someone credit, praise, or recognition for their accomplishments or qualities, especially while they are still alive.

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Meeting someone where they are 🤝🧍‍♀️➡️🧍‍♂️

To accept and acknowledge someone's current situation, feelings, or perspective without judgment, and to respond in a way that respects that reality.

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Roving eye 👁️🚶

A tendency to be attracted to many people, often implying infidelity or a lack of commitment.

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Hold a candle for 🕯️❤️

To have romantic feelings for someone, often when those feelings are not reciprocated or acknowledged.

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At heart ❤️👤

In one's true nature or inmost feelings.

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In the bloom of youth 🌸👦

At the peak of one's youth, when one is most beautiful, energetic, and healthy.

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Needs tender loving care 💖🖐️

Requires careful and affectionate attention to improve its condition or well-being.

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Bat your eyelashes 🦇👁️

To flutter your eyelids slowly, usually to flirt or to appear innocent or charming.

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Whisper sweet nothings 🤫🍬💖

To say loving, affectionate, or romantic things to someone, often in a low voice.

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Put someone on a pedestal 🚶⬆️🗿

To admire someone greatly and believe they are perfect or better than others.

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Counting one's blessings 🧮🙏✨

Appreciating the good things in one's life, especially during difficult times.

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A true-blue friend ✅🔵🤝

A loyal, steadfast, and genuine friend who is always there for you.

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Latch onto 🪝🧲

To become strongly attracted to or develop a strong interest in something or someone.

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Netflix and chill 📺🛋️❄️

To engage in a casual romantic or sexual encounter while pretending to watch Netflix.

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Send good vibes ➡️✨💖

To express positive thoughts, well wishes, or support to someone, especially from a distance.

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She is nesting 🏠🤰💖

A woman is preparing her home for the arrival of a baby by cleaning, organizing, and decorating.

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Bleeding heart 🩸❤️

A person who is very sympathetic and generous to those in need, often to an excessive degree.

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The first cut is the deepest 🔪🩸💖

The initial emotional pain or experience of something is often the most intense and memorable.

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Sparks are flying ✨⚡️

An intense and often passionate connection or conflict is developing between people.

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The main squeeze 👨‍👸

A person's primary romantic partner or sweetheart.

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The thread that binds 🧵🤝

A connection or shared characteristic that unites a group of people or things.

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An old flame 👴🏻🔥

Someone one has had a romantic relationship with in the past.

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Sparks flew between them ⚡️⚡️

There was a great deal of strong emotion, such as anger or sexual attraction, between two people.

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A siren's call 🧜‍♀️🗣️☠️

A tempting but dangerous invitation or suggestion that promises pleasure but leads to ruin.

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The glue that holds it together 💧🤝🧱

The essential person or thing that keeps a group, organization, or situation functioning harmoniously.

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Always a bridesmaid, never a bride 👩‍💍➡️👰‍♀️

Someone who is repeatedly chosen for a supporting or secondary role but never for the main or leading one.

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Dote on 😍💖

To show excessive fondness or admiration for someone.

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A breath of spring 💨🌸

A refreshing and invigorating feeling, often associated with new beginnings and pleasant change.

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A charitable interpretation ❤️🫙

An understanding or judgment of someone's actions or words that assumes they are well-intentioned, even if they are unclear or could be viewed negatively.

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A comfort in distress 🧸😭

Something or someone that provides solace, relief, and emotional support during difficult, painful, or upsetting times.

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A creature of comfort 🧜‍♀️🛋️👑

A person who particularly enjoys and seeks out physical ease, luxury, and convenience.

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All's fair in love and war ⚖️❤️⚔️

In situations of intense competition or romance, any tactic, even questionable ones, is acceptable to achieve victory or win someone over.

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Build bridges 🏗️🌉

To create or improve relationships between people or groups who have previously been in conflict or disagreement.

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Cut the apron strings ✂️🧵

To end the close or controlling relationship a parent has with their child, allowing the child more independence.

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