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Enthusiastically, warmly, as in They received their new daughter-in-law with open arms . This term alludes to an embrace. [Mid-1600s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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