“Have a thing for someone”in other languages
Be attracted to someone.
English
Icelandic
Polish
EnglishIcelandicPolishSame idea, different pictures
English stays vague on purpose: a “thing”. Polish feels mint toward someone, czuć do kogoś miętę, a sweet and slightly shy way to say it.
Icelandic walks around with grass in its shoes, að ganga með grasið í skónum: so busy wandering after the beloved that the grass gets in.
More sayings in other languages
- Have a free hand
- Have a lot on one's plate
- Have a nerve
- Have had it up to here
- Have one's back to the wall
- Have one's head in the clouds
- Hit the nail on the head
- Hold one's tongue
- Holy cow!