Cupid's disease
- noun
- /ˈkjuːpɪdz dɪˈziːz/
- Informal
:
enfermedad de Cupido
- After meeting her, he claimed he was suffering from Cupid's disease because all he could think about was how much he liked her.
Examples
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Whenever Valentine's Day arrives, it seems like everyone catches Cupid's disease.
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They teased him about his odd behavior, suggesting he had come down with Cupid's disease.
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After meeting her, he claimed he was suffering from Cupid's disease and couldn't think of anything else.
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She thinks she has Cupid's disease after meeting Jake.
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Everyone says that Cupid's disease is contagious!
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They teased him about his love-struck behavior, joking that he had come down with Cupid's disease after falling for her.
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Whenever Valentine's Day arrives, it seems like everyone finds themselves affected by Cupid's disease, unable to stop smiling at their crushes.
Antonyms
How In Love
- NSFW
81
3.3
4
4.9
- Informal
- Informal
7
3.7
- Informal
271
2.9
206
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Cupid's + disease
The phrase combines 'Cupid' (the cultural figure associated with love) with 'disease' (an illness) to create a joking metaphor of being struck by love or 'love-sickness'; a learner who knows both constituents can infer this meaning. The possessive + noun composition and the common cross-linguistic metaphor of love-as-illness make the expression immediately interpretable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Cupid's disease is a playful image that compares being in love to a sickness. The idea is that Cupid's arrow makes you act as if you are ill with love, so people jokingly say it to mean 'to be in love'.