have a crush on someone
to be in love with someone
TRANSLATION
to have a crush on s.o. = in jmdn. verknallt sein
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Years ago, Phil Silvers HAD A CRUSH ON Olivia de Havilland. She went out with him several times, but when he asked her to the Academy Awards dinner, she said, 'I'll go with you on one condition - that you don't wear those silly glasses.'
"Phil promised to do without them and kept his word. He arrived at her door that evening in a black suit, white tie - and a dog for the blind."
Silvers, Phil (1911-1985) American actor and comedian noted for his creation of Sergeant Ernie Bilko, the fast-talking but endearing con man in "The Phil Silvers Show" (1955–59), and for his roles in such Broadway plays as High Button Shoes (1947) and Top Banana (1951).
"Phil promised to do without them and kept his word. He arrived at her door that evening in a black suit, white tie - and a dog for the blind."
Silvers, Phil (1911-1985) American actor and comedian noted for his creation of Sergeant Ernie Bilko, the fast-talking but endearing con man in "The Phil Silvers Show" (1955–59), and for his roles in such Broadway plays as High Button Shoes (1947) and Top Banana (1951).
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to have a crush on (someone)
verb phrase
To be infatuated or enchanted with someone, esp to be secretly in love with someone older and more worldly than oneself.
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition
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ORIGIN
Crush entered English by 1398, possibly from the Old French verb croissir, which meant to break or crack and make a lot of noise doing so. The element of noise was soon lost to another verb, crash.
The romantic sense of crush was first recorded in the 1884 journal of Isabella Maud Rittenhouse. It referred to the object of the infatuation: “Wintie is weeping because her crush is gone.” Within a decade, crush described the infatuation itself. “Miss Palfrey ... consented to wear his bunch of blue violets. It was a ‘crush,’ you see, on both sides,” John Seymour Wood wrote in Yale yarns in 1895.
Slang expert Eric Partridge suggested that crush might have been a variation on mash, since by 1870 mashed was a popular way of saying flirtatious or head over heels in love, and to crush something was to mash it. To be on the mash, or to make a mash on someone, was to flirt with that person. A masher was a guy who could seduce a young woman with a sly glance and a smooth line of talk.
Reddit Etymology
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SYNONYMS
for "in love"
beguiled, besotted, bewitched, captivated, carried away, charmed, crazy about, enamored, enraptured, fascinated, hooked, in love, inflamed, intoxicated, mad about, obsessed, possessed, seduced, smitten, spellbound
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO A CONVERSATION TODAY
say something like:
"It's difficult to make objective decisions about someone if you have a crush on them."
verb phrase
To be infatuated or enchanted with someone, esp to be secretly in love with someone older and more worldly than oneself.
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition
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ORIGIN
Crush entered English by 1398, possibly from the Old French verb croissir, which meant to break or crack and make a lot of noise doing so. The element of noise was soon lost to another verb, crash.
The romantic sense of crush was first recorded in the 1884 journal of Isabella Maud Rittenhouse. It referred to the object of the infatuation: “Wintie is weeping because her crush is gone.” Within a decade, crush described the infatuation itself. “Miss Palfrey ... consented to wear his bunch of blue violets. It was a ‘crush,’ you see, on both sides,” John Seymour Wood wrote in Yale yarns in 1895.
Slang expert Eric Partridge suggested that crush might have been a variation on mash, since by 1870 mashed was a popular way of saying flirtatious or head over heels in love, and to crush something was to mash it. To be on the mash, or to make a mash on someone, was to flirt with that person. A masher was a guy who could seduce a young woman with a sly glance and a smooth line of talk.
Reddit Etymology
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SYNONYMS
for "in love"
beguiled, besotted, bewitched, captivated, carried away, charmed, crazy about, enamored, enraptured, fascinated, hooked, in love, inflamed, intoxicated, mad about, obsessed, possessed, seduced, smitten, spellbound
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO A CONVERSATION TODAY
say something like:
"It's difficult to make objective decisions about someone if you have a crush on them."
