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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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