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All is fair in love and war |
Everything – fair or unfair - is permitted in love and war |
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An old love |
An old flame |
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Be madly in love |
Be desperately in love |
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Be out of love with someone or something |
Be disappointed with someone or something |
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Cupboard love |
Love displayed for selfish reasons |
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Everything in the garden is lovely |
Everything is okay |
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Fall in love |
Become endeared with someone |
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Fall out of love |
Lose affection for someone |
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For love |
Free of charge |
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For the love of heaven |
For God’s sake |
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For the love of Mike |
For God’s sake |
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Free love |
Concept from the 60s, sex for fun, without further ado |
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Give your love to somebody |
Convey greetings to somebody |
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Heels over head in love |
Very, very much in love |
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It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new |
Plea for serial monogamy |
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It is love that makes the world go round |
Everything in this world is about love |
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Labour of love |
Hard work done for pleasure, not for money |
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Love |
In tennis: without points scored |
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Love |
Term of endearment |
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Love affair |
Amourette |
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Love apple |
Tomato |
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Love beads |
Now also, sex toy for
anal use
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Love bite |
Hickey
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Love child |
Child born out of wedlock |
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Love feast |
‘Αγαπη’ 1. a religious meal shared as a sign of love and good fellowship 2. a social gathering meant to create goodwill among those present |
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Love handles |
Rolls of fat around
one’s waist
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Love in a cottage |
Romantic love under modest circumstances |
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Love is blind |
Love makes one unobservant as to flaws of the loved one |
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Love laughs at locksmiths |
Amor vincit omnia |
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Love letter |
Well, a letter about love … |
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Love life |
Vicissitudes in love, more specifically, in sex |
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Love making |
Sex |
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Love making |
Wooing |
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Love match |
Marriage for love |
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Love me little, love me long |
Give me lasting love |
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Love me, love my dog |
Love me just the way I am |
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Love nest |
Place, secret or discrete, where lovers are free to love each other |
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Love philtre |
Afrodisiac |
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Love potion |
Afrodisiac |
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Love seat |
Two-seater that is
two-seater especially suitable for hanky-panky [also known as:
tête-à-tête]
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Love somebody to bits |
Love somebody very. very much |
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Love song |
Well, a song about love … |
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Love story |
Well, a story about love … |
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Love swing |
Contraption of (preferably leather) belts and straps that faciltates more spectacular sexual positions |
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Love token |
Object presented as symbol of love, e.g.
ring, amulet
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Love triangle |
Ménage-à-trois |
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Love will find a way |
Amor vincit omnia |
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Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your fence |
Good fences make good neighbours |
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Love-begotten |
Sired out of wedlock |
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Lovebird |
One who is very much in love |
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Lovebird |
Agapornis
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Love-hate (relationship) |
‘Was sich liebt, das neckt sich …’ |
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Love-in-a-mist |
Nigella
damascena
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Love-in-idleness |
Viola tricolor
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Loveless |
Unloved, unloving |
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Love-lies-bleeding |
Amaranthus
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Lovelock |
Curl on forehead or temple |
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Lovelorn |
Disappointed in love |
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Lovelorn |
Desperately in love |
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Lovely |
(somebody, something) that deserves to be loved for beauty |
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Lovely |
Term of endearment |
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Lovely |
Showgirl |
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Love-making |
Sex |
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Lover |
One who loves |
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Lover’s knot |
Intricate pattern often
found in jewellery
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Lover’s vows |
Promisses to be true and faithful |
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Love-rat |
Man who has a sexual relationship with someone who is not his wife or his mistress |
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Loverboy |
Handsome guy, Adonis, now often a young, handsome man who lures young innocent girls into prostitution |
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Loverlike |
Well, like a lover … |
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Loverly |
Well, like a lover … |
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Lovers |
Two (or more), who love each other |
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Lovesick |
So much in love that you feel ill |
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Lovesome |
Deserving to be loved (usually said about objects) |
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Love-struck |
Very, very much in love |
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Loveworthy |
Deserving to be loved |
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Lovey |
Term of endearment |
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Lovey-dovey |
Very, very (too?) sweet and loving |
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Loving |
Full of love |
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Loving |
Full of love |
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Loving cup |
Cup with two ears, like
this splendid glass one
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Loving-kindness |
Charity and mercy |
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Lucky at cards, unlucky at love Unlucky at cards, lucky in love |
Confusing wisdoms about games and love |
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Make love |
have sex |
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New love drives out the old |
A new love is the best cure for a broken heart |
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Not for love or money |
Not for all the tea in China |
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Out of love |
For reason of love or friendship |
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Pity is akin to love |
Compassion is a close relative of love |
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Play for love |
Do something for pleasure, not money |
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Puppy love |
Young love |
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Send your love to somebody |
Convey greetings to somebody |
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The love of money is the root of all evil |
Money corrupts all innocence |
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There is no love lost between them |
They hate each other’s guts |
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Those whom the gods love, die young |
Good people die young |
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Tough love |
Love hidden so that loved one behaves assertively |
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Tug-of-love battle |
Legal fight over visiting rights between divorcees |
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When the wolf comes in the door, love creeps out of the window |
Poverty drives love out |
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Young love |
Love between young persons |
