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sweep someone off their feet en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To seduce someone romantically.
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(figuratively) To overwhelm.
Am I capable of feeling as strongly as that? But I was absolutely unconscious! I hadn't a phrase to meet it with! I was overcome! I was swept off my feet! I didn't even try, in the dimmest way, to put it down!
1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 77:Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet
1975, Bob Dylan, “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:
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