suit one's fancy
to have or want something appealing
TRANSLATION
suit one's fancy = dem Geschmack, den Vorstellungen entsprechen
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Although Leonardo da Vinci occupied himself with a variety of things, he never ceased drawing and working in relief, pursuits which SUITED HIS FANCY more than any other.
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When Abraham Lincoln at last found a place that SUITED HIS FANCY, a mile from Little Pigeon Creek and some sixteen miles north of the settlement of Rockport on the Ohio River, he marked out a claim and returned to Kentucky for his wife, Nancy, and his two children, nine-year-old Sally and seven-year-old Abe.
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suit one's fancy
idiomatic phrase
1) to have something to one's liking
2) to have something that fits one's needs, desires or imagination
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This phrase, although old-fashioned, is still used occasionally. It is an interesting construction of two words:
suit (transitive verb): to please or satisfy
fancy (noun): imagination
So to put it another way: to satisfy the imagination.
You can also say “tickle one's fancy” or “depending on one's fancy” or “strike one's fancy”.
In the 1960s and 1970s, “whatever your suits your fancy” was superceded by “whatever turns you on”, a "turn on" being a sense of pleasure and an allusion to being turned on by drugs or by the physical attraction of another person.
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Practice TODAY in a conversation today, say something like:
“The brown leather jacket with black buttons really SUITS MY FANCY.”
