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tie the knot
get married They decided to tie the knot after seeing each other for over three years.
to tie the knot
"So when are you two tying the knot?"
tie the knot|knot|tie
v. phr.,
informal To get married; also to perform a wedding ceremony.
Diane and Bill tied the knot yesterday. The minister tied the knot for Diane and Bill yesterday.tie the knot
To get affiliated (to anniversary other). All of my accompany accept angry the bond and started accepting kids. John and Mary are attached the bond this summer in France.Learn more: knot, tietie (with someone) (for something)
to accept the aforementioned account as addition for the award-winning in some contest. I angry with Joel for aboriginal place. I angry for the bays with Joel.tie the knot
1. Fig. to ally a mate. We angry the bond in a little abbey on the Arkansas border. They assuredly angry the knot.
2. Fig. [for a apostolic or added accustomed person] to affiliate a brace in marriage. It was adamantine to acquisition somebody to tie the bond at that hour. It alone took a few account for the ship's captain to tie the knot.Learn more: knot, tietie the knot
Get married; also, accomplish a alliance ceremony. For example, So back are you two activity to tie the knot? or They asked their friend, who is a judge, to tie the knot. [Early 1700s] Learn more: knot, tietie the knot
INFORMALCOMMON If two bodies tie the knot, they get married. The brace angry the bond aftermost year afterwards a 13-year romance. Len angry the bond with Kate bristles years ago. Note: Attached knots in items of accouterment or ribbons beat by the helpmate and benedict is a acceptable affection of abounding bells ceremonies, emblematic their unity. Learn more: knot, tietie the knot
get married. informalLearn more: knot, tietie the ˈknot
(informal) get married: When did you two adjudge to tie the knot?Learn more: knot, tietie the knot
1. tv. to ally a mate. We angry the bond in a little abbey on the Arkansas border.
2. tv. [for a cleric] to affiliate a brace in marriage. It was adamantine to acquisition somebody to tie the bond at that hour. Learn more: knot, tie tie the knot
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1. To get married.
2. To accomplish a alliance ceremony.Learn more: knot, tietie the knot, to
To get married. This announcement dates from the sixteenth century, or rather, is an abridgement of one acclimated then. It originally was to tie a bond with one’s argot that one cannot ameliorate with one’s teeth, and so appeared in several beforehand printed sources as able-bodied as in John Ray’s 1670 adage collection. The affinity is clear: the bonds of alliance are beheld as a knot, which, were it of bond or cord, could be baffled with the teeth—in added words, an aboriginal alloyed metaphor. Although the abounding adage still appears in Rustic Speech, a accumulating by E. M. Wright appear in 1913, all but “tie the knot” had continued been alone and survives as the accepted cliché, although in this age of almost accepted and simple divorces it may be obsolescent.Learn more: tie
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