swoon over
to be overcome by emotion
TRANSLATION
swoon over = ins Schwärmen geraten swoon = ohnmächtig werden swoon = die Ohnmacht --- GOOGLE INDEX swoon over: approximately 150,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
While 15-year-old girls riot over Justin Bieber, 25-year-old women (and older) tend to SWOON OVER Canada's lesser-known Justin ... Nozuka.
(canada.com)
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International investment bankers SWOON OVER the amount of wealth Qatar will generate in the future, and how much of it will have to be recycled into overseas investments due to the limited size of the country.
(Financial Times)
(canada.com)
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International investment bankers SWOON OVER the amount of wealth Qatar will generate in the future, and how much of it will have to be recycled into overseas investments due to the limited size of the country.
(Financial Times)
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swoon
verb
- be overcome with admiration, adoration, or other strong emotion
- to faint, especially from extreme emotion
swoon
noun
- an occurrence of fainting
(Compact Oxford Dictionary)
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By the time Elvis Presley made his famous U.S. national appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956, he was already a TV veteran, having appeared almost 10 times. The scenes of swooning teenage girls enraptured by Presley's "gyrating" hips are legendary.
It took some time for the media to take note, but after his second appearance on the Milton Berle Show, Presley's hips stirred up a hornet's nest in several newspapers.
The New York Journal-American called his "primitive physical movement difficult to describe in terms suitable to a family newspaper." The New York Daily News reported that Elvis "gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos." Even the liberal-minded San Francisco Chronicle found his performance in "appalling taste."
As for Elvis, you could say he was singing all the way to the bank. For his three performances on the Sullivan show, he was paid $50,000, back then a hefty sum.
Etymology: Late 13th century, swogene, probably from Old English geswogen ,"in a faint," past participle of an obsolete verb, perhaps "swogan," as in "aswogan," meaning to choke". Also related to the Low German "swogen," to sigh.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"She remembers swooning over the Beatles the first time she saw them on television."
verb
- be overcome with admiration, adoration, or other strong emotion
- to faint, especially from extreme emotion
swoon
noun
- an occurrence of fainting
(Compact Oxford Dictionary)
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By the time Elvis Presley made his famous U.S. national appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956, he was already a TV veteran, having appeared almost 10 times. The scenes of swooning teenage girls enraptured by Presley's "gyrating" hips are legendary.
It took some time for the media to take note, but after his second appearance on the Milton Berle Show, Presley's hips stirred up a hornet's nest in several newspapers.
The New York Journal-American called his "primitive physical movement difficult to describe in terms suitable to a family newspaper." The New York Daily News reported that Elvis "gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos." Even the liberal-minded San Francisco Chronicle found his performance in "appalling taste."
As for Elvis, you could say he was singing all the way to the bank. For his three performances on the Sullivan show, he was paid $50,000, back then a hefty sum.
Etymology: Late 13th century, swogene, probably from Old English geswogen ,"in a faint," past participle of an obsolete verb, perhaps "swogan," as in "aswogan," meaning to choke". Also related to the Low German "swogen," to sigh.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"She remembers swooning over the Beatles the first time she saw them on television."
