swoon over

swoon over (someone or something)

To be overwhelmed or overcome by a rapturous feeling caused by someone or something. We stood there swooning over the dreamy actor like we were schoolgirls again. Fans across the country have been swooning over the band's announcement.
See also: over, swoon
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

swoon over someone or something

to seem to faint or pass out about someone or something. The kids swooned over the rock star like the kids of thirty years ago. Evangeline swooned over the frightful news.
See also: over, swoon
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • swoon
  • swoon over (someone or something)
  • be swimming with (someone or something)
  • can't think straight
  • be up to (one's) eyes in (something)
  • be up to (one's) neck in (something)
  • be up to your neck in something
  • be up to (one's) ears in (something)
  • be up to your ears in something
  • be up to (one's) chin in (something)
References in periodicals archive
These days, snogging Simon Gregson is all in a day's work for Kym Marsh, but she has confessed that when she was a girl she used to swoon over the Street star.
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WOMEN queued at Madame Tussauds in London yesterday to swoon over a waxwork figure of American movie idol Ryan Gosling.
Gos we love you, Ryan
Four-piece The Purnells, who play delicious rock that the Arctic Monkeys would swoon over, have supported The Bluetones and are confirmed for ARC'S stage alongside The View for Stockton Calling.
Strange, quiet and loud at Georgian... Cracking weekend at The Georgian:
Where we once adored Russian soul, now we swoon over Latin fire.
Curtain up