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hear wedding bells

informal

Definition

to think that someone is going to get married
She knew that if she brought her boyfriend home her mother would start hearing wedding bells.

(Definition of hear wedding bells from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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