have a thing about

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to have a strong like or dislike of sb / sth in a way that seems strange or unreasonable

   I have a thing about strays.

In the movies · 4

• Ted, I should have told you. He has a thing about his ears.There's Something About Mary1998
• I have a thing about strays.The Batman2022
• No I would have remembered Me I told you I had a thing about SamThe World's End2013
• l have a thing about thunder.Fantastic Mr. Fox2009
• Well, no offense, but I kinda have a thing about clean sheets.Barbarian2022
• Young men have this thing about comparing themselves.Before Midnight2013
• You have a real thing about rivers and streams, don't you?Battlestar Galactica: The Plan2009
• I shouldn't have written that thing about the farm animals.The Social Network2010

Learn it in full scenes

• There's Something About Mary1998
  • Ted Asks Mary to the Prom
  • Ted Asks Mary to the Prom
  • Ted Meets Mary's Family
• The Social Network2010
  • Erica Dumps Mark at the Bar
  • Mark Builds Facemash
  • Mark Crashes Harvard's Network

From the same entry

• A is one thing, B is another
• all things being equal
• and things
• be all things to all men
• come to the same thing
• be a good thing
• be no bad thing
• be onto a good thing
• do things to
• do your own thing
• first thing
• first things first

More idioms

• no thanks to
• work like a charm
• have a fit
• a can of worms
• the big picture
• there you go again
• as a whole
• get your own way
• go through the motions
• have it in you
• leave it at that
• on sale