smile on sth/sb
literary— phrasal verb with smile uk/smaɪl/us/smaɪl/verb
to feel positive about something or someone, or to treat it, him, or her in a very positive way:
The government began to smile on small businesses when it realized that they were the key to economic growth.
figurative The gods smiled on us and we had brilliant sunshine throughout the day.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Liking
- affection
- attached
- be a glutton for sth idiom
- be a hit with sb idiom
- be big on sth idiom
- grow
- grow on sb
- have a lot of time for sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- heart
- hit
- lick your lips idiom
- liking
- soft corner
- soft spot
- take a shine to sb idiom
- take to sb/sth
- taken
- thing
- warm
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