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take a fancy to
Idioms and Phrases
Also, take a liking or shine to . Be attracted to someone or something, as in They took a fancy to spicy foods after their Mexican vacation , or I'm hoping he'll take a liking to the water, now that we have a cottage on a lake , or We think Bill's taken a shine to Betsy . The first term was first recorded in 1541, the first variant in 1570, and the last, a colloquialism, in 1850.Example Sentences
Maybe somewhere down the line, there'll be a boss or overseer who'll take a fancy to those blue eyes and slim limbs of yours, boychik, and then you won't have a choice.
âYes. Miss Havisham had sent for me, to see if she could take a fancy to me. But she couldnât,âat all events, she didnât.â
âMaybe not. Only the Lord knows about that. Come into the house before they take a fancy to you. Who knows what Mr. Heronâs told them about your brother.â
He would take a fancy to a person for no reason, and be friendly one day perhaps and sullen the next.
A consortium partly led by the private equity arm of Standard Chartered PLC has invested $207 million in China's Dianrong.com, the peer-to-peer online lender said on Thursday, the latest international investor to take a fancy to the firm.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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