light someone's fire
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[edit]light someone's fire (third-person singular simple present lights someone's fire, present participle lighting someone's fire, simple past and past participle lit someone's fire)
- (slang) To excite or arouse someone; to turn someone on.
- 1967, The Doors (Robby Krieger, Jim Morrison, et al.), “Light My Fire” (song), on The Doors (album), Elektra Records:
- Come on, baby, light my fire
- Try to set the night on fire.
- 1985, David Carkeet, I Been There Before[1] (novel), Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 61:
- It really excited him — you know, really lit his fire. We aren’t sure which of the bunch it is. I’d love to know.
- 1967, The Doors (Robby Krieger, Jim Morrison, et al.), “Light My Fire” (song), on The Doors (album), Elektra Records: