carry a torch
verbEtymology
From the metaphor of a burning flame, to keep a fire burning. The association of a torch with love may date to the Greek and Roman tradition of a wedding torch, lit in the bride’s hearth on her wedding night, then used to light the hearth in her new home. Such a torch is associated with the Greek god of marriage Hymenaios.
Definitions
To love or to be romantically infatuated with, especially when such feelings are not…
To love or to be romantically infatuated with, especially when such feelings are not reciprocated.
- Someday, I know that Jim will up and leave me / But even if he does you can believe me / I'll go on carryin' the torch for Jim / I'll go on lovin' my Jim
- Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love.
- Lachey, for his part, seems to still carry a torch for his estranged wife.
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