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Meaning: To be in (what feels like) love
It's a distortion of the French word crèche, meaning 'crib.' To be 'in a crèche,' or to 'have one's own crèche,' in 17th century France, meant you were so smitten with love thatyou were as helpless and irresponsible as an infant, or were crib-bound.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoit arose as a phrase in the early 20th century from the late 19th century colloquial usage of the word crush meaning a person one is infatuated with & so
i speculate
a person who has first metaphorically laid one flat
soon falls under the influence of various idioms like
to have a yen or a liking for
or to set ones heart or ones sights on
or to have a fixation on
or perhaps even a hard on
etc
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∙ 13y agoas well as i know it's mean that to feeling extreme attraction to someones personality.
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