love away

present singular third person loves away · participle present loving away · participle past loved away · past loved away

1. idiomaticinformaluncommonTo resolve conflicts and emotional pain through love and intimacy.

   Then affirming and clinging and loving it away in that old sensual dream.

   2002, Elizabeth Von Vogt, An Awful Intimacy, page 208

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   All my friends told me, we'd never make it / That love to you was just a game you played / And I'll admit at times we had rough goin' / But in each other's arms, we loved it away

   1975, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, “We Loved It Away”, in George & Tammy & Tina

   I realize sometimes in a web of passion we all get caught / But understand / All the hurt and all the pain / It's gonna vanish just like the rain / Gonna love it away so cheer up

   1982, Ashford and Simpson, “Love It Away”, in Street Opera

   She'd seen all the hurt and loved it away, and with it went the burning secrets, and in blew the truth, cold and ugly and naked as all sin.

   2020, Alexis Weedon, Nicola Darwood (editors), Retelling Cinderella, Cultural and Creative Transformations, page 209