win someone's heart
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win someone's heart (third-person singular simple present wins someone's heart, present participle winning someone's heart, simple past and past participle won someone's heart)
- To gain the love or affection of someone.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC:
- Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.
- 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVIII, in Allan Quatermain[1]:
- Nay, he hath won my heart, and with it goes my hand, and throne, and all I have— […]
- 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business[2]:
- She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.