love away

English

Verb

love away (third-person singular simple present loves away, present participle loving away, simple past and past participle loved away)

  1. (informal, idiomatic, uncommon) To resolve conflicts and emotional pain through love and intimacy.
    • 1975, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, “We Loved It Away”, in George & Tammy & Tina:
      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
    • 1982, Ashford and Simpson, “Love It Away”, in Street Opera:
      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
    • 2002, Elizabeth Von Vogt, An Awful Intimacy, page 208:
      Then affirming and clinging and loving it away in that old sensual dream.
    • 2020, Alexis Weedon, Nicola Darwood (editors), Retelling Cinderella, Cultural and Creative Transformations, page 209:
      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.
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