| 单词 | to have a case on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a case on c. Originally U.S. An infatuation; an instance of two people falling in love. to have a case on: to be infatuated with or enamoured of. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > infatuation infatuation1751 case1852 mash1870 crush1884 pash1891 rave1902 béguin1919 lurve1936 amour fou1961 the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)] loveOE paramoura1500 to love with1597 to be sweet on (upon)1740 to be cracked about or on1874 to be stuck on1878 mash1881 to be shook on1888 to go dingy on1904 to fall for ——1906 lurve1908 to have or get a crush on1913 to be soppy on1918 to have a pash for (or on)1922 to have a case on1928 to be queer for1941 1852 Harper's Mag. Sept. 338/2 Young America..voted it ‘a case’. The elderly ladies thought it a ‘shocking flirtation’. 1872 M. E. Braddon To Bitter End III. xvii. 285 They have only been engaged three weeks; but from the day we first met Lord Stanmore..the business was settled. It was a ‘case’, as you fast young men say. 1893 ‘S. Grand’ Heavenly Twins I. ii. iv. 237 Edith..blushed. She could not reason about him... ‘That's a case, I think,’ said Mrs. Guthrie Brimston. 1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial iii. 73 Everybody knew they had a terrible case on each other. 1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael vii. iii. 372 ‘I think it's a case all right.’..‘Yes,’ said Melissa. ‘She's lost to the world.’ 2003 D. Palmer Man in Control ix. 149 She thought maybe he had a case on you. < as lemmas |
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