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under someone's spell
under someone's spell
Fascinated or influenced by someone, as in I think he has our daughter under his spell. This idiom derives from the literal meaning of spell, "a word or formula that has magical power." [Mid-1800s]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Dick | | [dik] | |
| Midha | | - | Arabic |
| Friso | | - | Frisian |
| Zsanett | | - | Hungarian |
| Terese | | te-RES (Swedish) | Basque, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
| Odovacar | | o-do-VAY-kər (English) | Ancient Germanic |