with open arms
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Idiomatic With enthusiasm, as if embracing.
- Night after lonely night, we meet in dreams / As I run to your side / You wait with open arms, open arms / That now are closed to me / Through a veil of tears / Your vision disappears / And I'm as blue as I can be1963, Bobby Vinton, “Blue on Blue”, in Blue on Blue:
- There once was a time / I was down on my luck and I needed a friend / and there you were with open arms / and you took me in1977, True Example, “Love Is Finally Coming My Way”:
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- Well, I've made so many new friends / With open arms they let me in / They say they'll be with me till the end / They say they'll stick through thick and thin2012, Saint Motel, chapter 1997, in Voyeur:
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