The one that got away

[Sarah]

1. The mate from a past relationship or friendship who, in the present reality, seems the ideal match, if it werent for some force beyond your control, [fate] or otherwise, keeping you apart.

2. In virtually any context, someone you meet and share a significant encounter with who holds qualities akin to the one but for circumstance sake you are separated from; always after the fact.

3. The person dated casually, but never seriously, who could have been more.

4. In [Bro] Parlance: The one girl who a guy liked but with whom he never quite connected or scored.

5. More broadly, any love regret More apt: A One That Got Away.

Origin: Fishing phrase.

[Becky]

The person that you couldve and shouldve ended up with but didnt, usually because of a series of poor choices on your end. You pine over them and wonder what couldve been all the while stalking them through mutual friends and on facebook, becoming extremely jealous over anyone that looks twice at them. You try to express your regret but they usually wont believe you unless you do some sort of grand gesture. The one that got away is someone that you will forever regret. In other words Trevor Sharod White.

[Sarah]

A person who you were originally supposed to end up with, but due to a cause of fate or by consequences cause by you the relationship failed and as time goes by you wonder what you and that person could have been, making them the one that got away.

[Couch Potatoe]

That guy [you you] could have had it all with but something, whether it was distance or just [bad timing], drove you apart and now your left wondering, [what if]?

[Guest]

The one you can't get rid of, keeps haunting you, and thinking about him makes you cry. The one you still wish to end up with and start a future with.