to lose one's heart
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4.7
- idiom
:
perder el corazón
- And I don't mind telling you I've completely lost my heart to you.
Examples
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He seems to have lost his heart to you. "He knows I like him," she said.
Fiction book (1991) -
In that moment, I knew I had lost my heart to her smile.
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There was a time I would have lost my heart to a face like yours.
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I lost my heart And I lost my way
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I lost my heart to a girl.
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Can she win him over without losing her heart?
Fiction book (1998) -
It's the smile he lost his heart to.
Fiction book (1995) -
Our Freeman lost his heart to this woman.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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She has lost her heart.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
950
2.5
To begin to feel strong romantic feelings for someone
475
1.6
To begin to feel strong romantic feelings for someone or something
84
3.7
To start to like someone as more than a friend
1
4.4
To fall in love with someone or something
Make a person fall deeply and quickly in love with you
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'lose' plus 'heart' signals an emotional change and 'heart' is widely used cross-linguistically as the seat of feelings, so learners who know the words will sense an emotion-related meaning. However the specific sense 'fall in love' is a metaphorical extension (and could be confused with the separate phrase 'lose heart' meaning to become discouraged), so the exact romantic meaning is not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Lose one's heart gives a simple picture: your heart is so taken by a person or a place that it feels as if you have 'lost' it and cannot find it again. So, it means 'to fall in love'.