take a fancy to smb.

take a fancy to smb.
(take a fancy to smb. (или smth.))
1) полюбить, влюбиться, увлечься, привязаться; см. тж. take a shine to smb.

Ernest was getting a big boy now. She could excuse any young woman for taking a fancy to him. (S. Butler, ‘The Way of All Flesh’, ch. XXXVIII) — Эрнест становился юношей, и она не осудила бы ни одну девушку, которая стала бы на него поглядывать.

It had never occurred to her that Roger and Tom would take a great fancy to one another. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Theatre’, ch. XIV) — Ей и в голову не приходило, что Роджер и Том могут так привязаться друг к другу.

2) ≈ взбрести в голову

I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf. (Ch. Brontë, ‘Jane Eyre’, ch. XXVIII) — Кажется, он не принял меня за нищую, но решил, что я весьма эксцентричная особа, которой пришла фантазия отведать черного хлеба.


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