love at first sight

An instantaneous attraction to someone or something. For example, With Peter and Constance, it was a case of love at first sight, or When Dave saw that car, it was love at first sight. This expression was already used by Chaucer for romantic attraction in Troilus and Cressida: “She loved right from the first sight.” The transfer to objects dates from the first half of the 1900s.

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“The first time I saw an electric guitar as a teenager, it was love at first sight. I saw it from across the high school hallway,” Hammett recalls of his first in-person sighting of a guitar at about age 14.

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It was love at first sight for Adarsh Ramchurn.

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A 97-year-old woman who met her husband on a train on VE Day exactly 80 years ago has said it was "love at first sight".

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That lovely young man was Ken, and it was love at first sight.

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"It was love at first sight but remember, we know… the teachings of our church."

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