english
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Phrase(s): make love (to someone) 1. to kiss and caress someone. • Ernest made love to Linda in the garden in the moonlight. • She liked the way he made love to her—all that poetry. 2. Euph. to have sex with someone. • I really think that he wanted to make love to me. • She did not want to make love to him.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Court, engage in amorous caressing, as in Romance was in the air, and she hoped he would make love to her. [Late 1500s] 2. Have sexual intercourse, as in They'd been making love well before they married. This usage today is the more common of the two. [Mid-1900s]
American Heritage Idioms