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have a thing about
Idioms and Phrases
Be obsessed or preoccupied with something. For example, He has a thing about disorder in the garage , or Bob has a thing about brunettes . [ Slang ; first half of 1900s]Example Sentences
“I have a thing about mountains,” Dr. Singh, now 70 and retired, said during an interview in his apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “To me Hokusai captured the essence of the mountain.”
“I have a thing about mountains,” Dr. Singh, now 70 and retired, said during an interview in his apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “To me Hokusai captured the essence of the mountain.”
Something like, “Excuse me, I just have a thing about toes — and your toes on my armrest is really freaking me out.”
“People have a thing about feet,” DeRuvo conceded.
“I have a thing about gorillas and monkeys,” Jamgochian told me on Thursday, her Shiba Inu, Mia, alert at her side.
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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 Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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