have a case on

Also, have a crush on. Be infatuated with someone, as in He's had a case on her for years, or Teenage girls often have a crush on this teacher. The first slangy term dates from the mid-1800s; the second, a colloquialism, dates from the late 1800s.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Syntyche	SIN-tə-kee (English)	Biblical, Biblical Greek, Ancient Greek
Haran	-	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Gulnara	-	Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz
Timoti	-	Maori
Nelinha	-	Portuguese
Luciana	loo-CHAH-nah (Italian), loo-THYAH-nah (Spanish), loo-SYAH-nah (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ancient Roman