have a thing about

1. Be obsessed or preoccupied with something. For example, He has a thing about disorder in the garage, or Bob has a thing about brunettes. [Slang; first half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

“I have a thing about mountains,” Dr. Singh, now 70 and retired, said during an interview in his apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “To me Hokusai captured the essence of the mountain.”

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Something like, “Excuse me, I just have a thing about toes — and your toes on my armrest is really freaking me out.”

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“People have a thing about feet,” DeRuvo conceded.

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“I have a thing about gorillas and monkeys,” Jamgochian told me on Thursday, her Shiba Inu, Mia, alert at her side.

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Dear Amy: I’m a 5-foot-9-inch woman, and it amazes me to hear how many people have a thing about height: The guy always “has” to be taller.

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