sweep someone off their feet

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sweep someone off their feet (third-person singular simple present sweeps someone off their feet, present participle sweeping someone off their feet, simple past and past participle swept someone off their feet)

1. (idiomatic) To seduce someone romantically.
2. (figurative) To overwhelm.
   • 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:

     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!

   • 1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:

     Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet