love's young dream

1. A young couple in a romantic relationship. There are rumors floating around that the two celebrities are love's young dream now.

2. An idyllic romantic relationship. I can't believe they broke up—they were the image of love's young dream!

love's young dream

1 the relationship of young lovers. 2 the object of someone's love. 3 a man regarded as a perfect lover.

See also: dream, young

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References in classic literature

Perkins had blighted love's young dream for Cyrus with a killing frost.

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I very well understand this is not the fashionable, or possibly the polite way of describing those incipient sentiments which form the germ of love in the virgin affections of young ladies, and that a skillful and refined poet would use very different language on the occasion; but I began this history to represent things as they are, and such is the manner in which "Love's Young Dream" appears to a pocket-handkerchief.

{"Love's Young Dream" = popular poem by Thomas Moore (1780-

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Ah, lad, cherish love's young dream while it lasts!

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It seemed to her, for she had no knowledge of the existence of Lord Dawlish, a genuine manifestation of Love's Young Dream. She liked Dudley Pickering and she was devoted to Claire.

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Love's young dream, I muses to myself, how swift it fades when a man has the nature and disposition of a lop-eared rabbit!

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We decided not to be melts and get the experts in - here Judi James writes her verdict about love's young dream - and how it could be fast turning into a nightmare.

Two damning words uttered by Curtis which expose his TRUE feelings for Love Island's Amy; They are love's young dream but are Love island's Curtis and Amy a part of each other or are they treating us as melts?

They did come across as likeable people, but unsurprisingly love's young dream came crashing down when they split in March as real-world practicalities kicked in.

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TIFFANY spends the night at Bernadette's, but according to Evie, it's not love's young dream - instead, the redhead is just leading her friend on.

TV SOAPS; Lovers' Tiff EASTENDERS BBC1 CRUEL EVIE STIRS UP TROUBLE BETWEEN BERNADETTE AND TIFFANY BY STEALING A KISS... BUT THAT'S THE LEAST OF THEIR WORRIES WHEN THEY FALL FOUL OF THE POLICE

EASTENDERS BBC1 TIFFANY spends the night at Bernadette's, but according to Evie, it's not love's young dream - instead, the redhead is just leading her friend on.

TV SOAPS; Lovers' Tiff CRUEL EVIE STIRS UP TROUBLE BETWEEN BERNADETTE AND TIFFANY BY STEALING A KISS... BUT THAT'S THE LEAST OF THEIR WORRIES WHEN THEY FALL FOUL OF THE POLICE

'Still love's young dream, then?' Rosie laughed, thinking of the text.

The girl next door; Friends for life and polar opposites, Ed and Rosie's feelings are purely platonic

LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM Tommy and Madeleine are all smiles on their wedding day in 1947

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LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM In the sex-mad, cynical and harsh world that is planet pop we are desperately in need of a cute couple and have our hopes firmly pinned on Rihanna and Drake.

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Relationships that start as love's young dream unravel as one's true colours push through.

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