How much time do you spend with your friends, boyfriend, girlfriend or family? Is it important for you to share love? Well, here we are going to learn some idioms about “love”. However, have you ever heard about idioms? What does the word ‘idiom’ mean? This time the Inglés Individual’s team will explain to you a little more about idioms and specific age idioms. This is a normal situation at the moment to speak with native speakers, but what happens with non-English speakers? This is an opportunity to learn these idioms about love, tell us, have you ever fallen in love? When was the last time you thought of someone? After these questions, we need to know what the idioms are, let’s answer the following question.
What does the word ‘idiom’ mean?
An idiom is a phrase or a group of words that has a metaphorical (not literal) meaning. Every language has idioms and in this case English is not an exception. Idioms have different categories, however in this section we’ll introduce to age idioms. They are important because they make you sound more like a native and can boost your comprehension skills.
- A blind date, have you ever been on a blind date? How was it? Did you plan it? This idiom is just a romantic meeting between two people who haven’t met before and the first time they are together is called ‘a blind date’. (tell us if you do it!)
- To be infatuated, if you had a crush while you were going to your job or school, mabe, you were infatuated. Why are we telling you this? Because it is a super strong feeling for someone only to see that feeling disappear in a few days, it means the love lasts a very short period of time.
- A match made in heaven, when you are a match made in heaven it means you are in a relationship that is likely to be happy and successful.
- To be on the rocks, in a relationship is possible to have disagreements or problems and when someone is in this situation, people can say he or she is on the rocks.
- Love rat, do know someone who is a love rat? Have you ever been a love rat? A love rat is someone who cheats his/her partner.
We also have the verb “to flirt”, what is the meaning of this verb? When you are attracted to someone and you attempt to show that you like her/him, so you can flirt. Of course you can flirt by saying “you look really cute today!”, “You look really pretty tonight!”, etc.
The next phrase is used to invite someone to have a nice date, for example “ would you like to go out with me?”, if that person tells you “no, thanks”, relax, that person is not indicated.
What do you think about love? Do you like to say idioms? Idioms and phrases are the great reality, you must be careful at the moment to say idioms because each one has a different meaning and it can be used in a bad sense. Inglés Individual can help you to learn more about them! Good luck this Valentine’s day!