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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.Advertisement
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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