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
Nimat	-	Arabic
Rafiq	-	Arabic, Urdu
Saga	SAH-gah (Swedish)	Norse Mythology, Swedish, Icelandic
GÉRald	-	French
Aleksander	ahl-ek-SAHN-der (Polish)	Polish, Slovene, Albanian, Estonian, Norwegian, Danish
Chrysanthos	-	Greek, Ancient Greek