for the love of God


• Used to accompany an urgent request or to express annoyance or surprise.

  ‘for the love of God, get me out of here!’

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  • ‘If I should ever be in a vegetative state and kept alive on life support, please, for the love of God, don't ever show me in that condition on national television.’
  • ‘Please, for the love of God, TELL ME WHAT YOU SAID!’
  • ‘And if you do break down, for the love of God, PUSH YOUR CAR INTO THE EMERGENCY LANE.’
  • ‘Please, for the love of God, write something better…’
  • ‘As for the rest of you - for the love of God, please stop.’
  • ‘Don't let this happen - for the love of God, think of the children!’
  • ‘I've got no trouble with sexy little clothes, but for the love of God, it's the middle of winter!’
  • ‘Just get down there and try, for the love of God!’
  • ‘Oh, for the love of God, Erin, please do not cry!’
  • ‘Oh, for the love of God, don't do this to me now!’
for love


• For pleasure rather than profit.

  ‘he played for the love of the game’

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  • ‘Did anyone seriously imagine that he was managing England for love rather than money?’
  • ‘It's not a lot of money, so we do it for love, we do it because we have this commitment.’
  • ‘And Jeff loved what he did, and he did it for love, not money.’
  • ‘The answer to that question is that he did it by himself - single-handedly, and he did it for love.’
the love that dare not speak its name


• 1An allusive term for homosexuality.

  1. 1.1Used to refer to a preference or practice regarded as unacceptable or taboo.
     ‘a fondness for nuclear power was the love that dare not speak its name among green campaigners’
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     • ‘For the LNP, privatisation could be the love that dare not speak its name.’
     • ‘One Tory MP has suggested that Europhilia on his party's backbenches was now "the love that dare not speak its name".’
     • ‘I have fallen prey to the love that dare not speak its name: I am in the thrall of a music that is not cool, never will be cool, and never has been cool.’
     • ‘It is the love that dare not speak its name - the love for the atomic bomb and for nuclear power.’
     • ‘While he was helping flog 13 million records to teenyboppers, he harboured a love that dare not speak its name: he adored rock.’
     • ‘There are many types of love, a man's love for a fine wine, or the love shared by a young couple just beginning a romance, but today we are concerned with the love that dare not speak its name, a website's love for a local football manager.’
     • ‘During the 1990s, avarice was the love that dare not speak its name.’
     • ‘Redistribution remains the policy that dare not speak its name.’
     • ‘On the other side, immigration is the issue that dare not speak its name.’
fall in love


• 1Develop a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone.

  ‘I've fallen in love with you’

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  • ‘we were slowly falling in love’

  1. 1.1Develop a deep liking for something.
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     • ‘I came to San Francisco to visit a friend and fell in love with the city’
not for love or money
informal

• Not in any circumstances.

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  • ‘they'll not return for love or money’
  • ‘He has taken on an unselfish task, not for love or money, for the first time in his life.’
  • ‘This compromise I would not make, not for love or money or threats of a lonely old age.’
  • ‘Some guitars you don't let go, not for love or money… and this is one of them.’
  • ‘We never lend, rent or give our mailing list nor any customer information to anyone, not for love or money.’
  • ‘You have my admiration, I would not be able to do it, not for love or money.’
  • ‘A young woman on a cross-country train from Vancouver to Toronto has a child by a visiting Indian student because of ‘the fact that you couldn't get condoms around the Calgary station, not for love or money.’’
love me, love my dog
proverb

• If you love someone, you must accept everything about them, even their faults.

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  • ‘I'm one of those people who has taken to heart the old saying "love me, love my dog."’
love is blind
proverb

• Loving someone makes you unable to see their faults.

  ‘I don't see why he bothered with her but then, love is blind’

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  • ‘Americans love baseball and, as they say, love is blind, which is why in the current controversy it's easy to overlook the history of cheating in the game.’
  • ‘They say love is blind, and too much devotion to a company can sometimes mean overlooking some pretty obvious shortcomings.’
  • ‘Even where love is blind, it was obvious that Julian had been inept at studies, and his prospects were fair at best.’
  • ‘They say love is blind, but Kelly must have lost all her senses.’
  • ‘It's true that online dating isn't always safe and we are definitely cautioned against it, but like they say, love is blind and mistakes are bound to happen when we fail to see the truth.’
there's no love lost between


• There is mutual dislike between (the people mentioned)

  ‘there's no love lost between Scott and me’

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  • ‘There is little love lost between them, although mutual respect burns strongly.’
  • ‘Certainly there will be no love lost between not only the players of these two clubs, but also between the two teams' coaching staffs.’
  • ‘The fact that there is no love lost between champion and contender has added spice to their battles in recent years; they respect each other, of course, but that's about the limit of their mutual feelings.’
  • ‘‘There is certainly no love lost between the two teams,’ he said.’
  • ‘There's obviously no love lost between Eddie and Tim.’
  • ‘There is often little love lost between lawyer and defendant especially if the client goes to jail.’
  • ‘These nations have a long history of warfare and there is little love lost between any of them.’
  • ‘There was not much love lost between the two cities, and that intense civic pride was reflected by local radio.’
  • ‘There is not much love lost between the competitors.’
  • ‘There is little love lost between the former monopolist and the new competitors.’
fall out of love


• 1Cease to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone.

  ‘we just fell out of love’

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  • ‘Mike thought his wife had fallen out of love with him’

  1. 1.1Become disenchanted with something.
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     • ‘he admitted to falling out of love with the game’
for the love of Mike
British informal

• Used to accompany an exasperated request or to express dismay.

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  • ‘for the love of Mike take off those shoes!’
  • ‘'Cut it out and just take some normal pictures, for the love of Mike.’’
  • ‘He's my man-servant, not a plutocrat, for the love of Mike!’
  • ‘Forget pounds - why, for the love of Mike would you want to work with pounds?’
make love


• 1Have sexual intercourse.

  ‘one of the young men makes love to a village girl’

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  • ‘in the morning they made love’
  • ‘She no longer wants to make love, whereas before we had a very good sex life.’
  • ‘The idea was that parents loved each other, got married, made love, and babies resulted.’
  • ‘Being gay means that the ordinary relationship between making love and having children is severed.’
  • ‘Or it might involve being interrupted while making love or excessive worry about areas such as work, family life or finances.’
  • ‘She never initiates sex, and never really gets into it when we do make love.’
  • ‘Our feelings have grown stronger, we are closer than ever and we make love regularly.’
  • ‘We kissed and that night we went back to her house and we made love.’
  • ‘Things wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't made love, but we have quite a few times.’
  • ‘We'd talk lots and make love lots - and then talk lots again and make love lots again.’
  • ‘They said they had lost a sense of intimacy and were no longer making love.’

• 2make love todated Pay amorous attention to (someone).

Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati ‘desires’, Latin libet ‘it is pleasing’, libido ‘desire’, also by leave and lief.