win someone's heart

present singular third person wins someone's heart · participle present winning someone's heart · participle past won someone's heart · past won someone's heart · alternative win the heart of someone

1. To gain the love or affection of someone.

   Nay, he hath won my heart, and with it goes my hand, and throne, and all I have—[…]

   1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVIII, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC

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   Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.

   1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC

   She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.

   1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC