plays Cupid
Sets people up
To play Cupid is to try to bring two people together romantically, like the mythological god of love with his arrows.
The phrase suggests well-meaning but often meddlesome matchmaking: She's always playing Cupid with her single friends.
The effort may be welcome or unwanted, successful or disastrous.
- matchmakerArranger of romantic pairings
- ErosGreek deity of desire
- romanceLove and its excitement
- wingmanSupportive second in formation
- arrangerOne who orders elements
Valentine's Day · attraction · love at first sight · connector · go-between · cherub · courtship · Aphrodite · introducer · Venus · mediator · love potion · dating · double date · facilitator · flirtation · set up · blind date
romantic involvement intervention
plays Cupidbreaks up
Ends a relationship
cockblocks · drives a wedge between · tears apart · poisons the well · throws cold water on
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