light someone's fire

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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)

1. (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.

   • 2003, Robert Bryce, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron‎^[2], PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 213:

     He’d prowled Houston’s titty bars for more than a decade, and he’d found the one woman who really lit his fire.

See also

• turn someone's head