make love

[make love] {v. phr.}

1. To be warm, loving, and tender toward someone of the opposite sex; try to get him or her to love you too.

/There was moonlight on the roses and he made love to her in the porch swing./

2. To have sexual relations with (someone).

/It is rumored that Alfred makes love to every girl he hires as a secretary./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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