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[missdaredevil]

You may not have model-caliber looks, but you definitely have some winning combination of humor, kindness, success, and intelligence. By learning to highlight those qualities, you can have a potential partner *swooning.*

to be overwhelmed by happiness?

Is that commonly used?

Thanks

[Brian Boyd]

Swooning means fainting - losing consciousness.

It doesn't really mean it literally, though. People don't often see someone who is so attractive that they faint (except in movies or cartoons).

Sometimes when we see someone who is really good-looking we pretend to swoon, to show our friends that we find that person attractive (like if a very sexy guy or girl walks past, and you do a comedy swoon action or pretend to fan yourself as if the temperature in the room has suddenly become very hot).
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