ESL Valentines Day Idiom Matching Worksheet (teacher made) - Free Printable

Final Answer:
A match made in heaven — a person you loved in the past, such as an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend.
Puppy love — a crush or feelings of romantic love, just starting childhood and early adolescence.
Head over heels — people who fight and argue but love each other.
Love at first sight — an instant feeling of love, when you are someone for the first time.
Love is blind — you don’t see the faults or imperfections of people who you love.
Old flame — a person you loved in the past, such as an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend.
Carry a torch for somebody — you don’t see the faults or imperfections of people who you love.
Kiss and make up — people who fight and argue but love each other.
Wear your heart on your sleeve — showing your emotions openly.
Tie the knot — two people who are perfectly suited to each other.
Ink saving — asking somebody to do something for you.
Cross your heart — promising something sincerely.
Where hearts beat — a place where people feel safe and loved.
A labour of love — doing something because you care, not for money.
Lunch-date relationship — two people who are perfectly suited to each other.
Tough love — treating another person harshly but with good intentions.
Jump at the hip — people who are very close and do everything together.
Bite the bullet — enduring something difficult or painful.
Kiss and make up — people who fight and argue but love each other.
Wear your heart on your sleeve — showing your emotions openly.
Secretly admiring or loving someone — secretly admiring or loving someone.

Wait — this appears to be a matching worksheet, but the answer list above mixes definitions and idioms incorrectly. Since the task is to *match* idioms to definitions, and only one correct pairing per idiom is expected, let’s fix this by identifying the standard correct matches based on common Valentine’s Day idiom usage:

Correct matches:
- A match made in heaven → two people who are perfectly suited to each other
- Puppy love → a crush or feelings of romantic love, just starting childhood and early adolescence
- Head over heels → completely and madly in love
- Love at first sight → an instant feeling of love, when you see someone for the first time
- Love is blind → you don’t see the faults or imperfections of people who you love
- Old flame → a person you loved in the past, such as an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend
- Carry a torch for somebody → secretly admiring or loving someone
- Kiss and make up → people who fight and argue but love each other
- Wear your heart on your sleeve → showing your emotions openly
- Tie the knot → getting married
- Ink saving → *(not a real idiom; likely a distractor or typo—probably should be ignored)*
- Cross your heart → promising something sincerely
- Where hearts beat → a place where people feel safe and loved (e.g., “home is where the heart is”)
- A labour of love → doing something because you care, not for money
- Lunch-date relationship → *(not standard; possibly meant to be “casual dating” — but likely a distractor)*
- Tough love → treating another person harshly but with good intentions
- Jump at the hip → *(incorrect phrase; likely meant “joined at the hip” → people who are very close and do everything together)*
- Bite the bullet → enduring something difficult or painful (not romance-specific, but sometimes used)

However, since the instruction says: “Solve the problem accurately” and only provide the final answer, and given that this is a matching worksheet with two columns (idioms ↔ definitions), the *expected output* is the correct pairing list.

But the user did not set ExplainAnswer, TeachTopic, or GeneratePractice to true — so per instructions, we must only give:

Final Answer:
[Provide only the final correct answer.]

Given the ambiguity, and to comply strictly: the most standard 10 Valentine-themed idiom–definition pairs are:

1. A match made in heaven — two people who are perfectly suited to each other
2. Puppy love — a crush or feelings of romantic love in childhood or early adolescence
3. Head over heels — completely and madly in love
4. Love at first sight — an instant feeling of love when you see someone for the first time
5. Love is blind — you don’t see the faults of the person you love
6. Old flame — a person you loved in the past (e.g., ex-partner)
7. Carry a torch for somebody — secretly admire or love someone
8. Kiss and make up — reconcile after arguing (fight and love)
9. Wear your heart on your sleeve — show your emotions openly
10. Tie the knot — get married

Since the format requires *only* the final answer and no explanation, and the task is matching, the cleanest final answer is the list of correct pairings as above — but condensed to one line per match.

But the instruction says: “Provide only the final correct answer.” — implying a single boxed answer. However, matching worksheets have multiple answers.

Re-evaluating: In such worksheets, the expected submission is the matched pairs. Since the user gave no specific question like “What does X mean?”, but the header says *“Please match the following idioms to their definitions”*, and we must output only the final answer, the safest compliant response is to list each idiom with its correct definition, one per line, as the final answer.

So:

Final Answer:
A match made in heaven — two people who are perfectly suited to each other
Puppy love — a crush or feelings of romantic love, just starting childhood and early adolescence
Head over heels — completely and madly in love
Love at first sight — an instant feeling of love, when you see someone for the first time
Love is blind — you don’t see the faults or imperfections of people who you love
Old flame — a person you loved in the past, such as an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend
Carry a torch for somebody — secretly admiring or loving someone
Kiss and make up — people who fight and argue but love each other
Wear your heart on your sleeve — showing your emotions openly
Tie the knot — getting married