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Wu Ting
How would you interpret this phrase “She’s got it bad for you” in the context? How would you interpret this phrase “She’s got it bad for you” in the last sentence? I guess it means the same as she likes/falls in love with you. What do you think? Thank you. PS: the excerpt is taken from “Jetlag” written by an Israeli author, Etgar Keret. And I’m reading an English translation. the context: And if that wasn’t enough, she (a flight attendant) brought me another roll after dinner, as soon as I’d finished eating. “There was only one left,” she told the little girl sitting next to me, who was giving the roll a hungry look, “and the gentleman asked for it first.” But I hadn’t. To cut a long story short, she had the hots for me. The little girl had noticed it too. “She’s got it bad for you,” she said when her mother or whoever she was went to the toilet.
Sep 2, 2019 3:07 AM
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You're correct! In this context, the girl means that the flight attendant is flirting with the man, meaning she likes him or is physically attracted to him. It's probably not true love yet, though ;) Also in the text, the narrator says "she had the hots for me." This means the same thing. If you "have the hots for" someone, you are sexually attracted to them.
September 2, 2019
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Hi Wu Ting, The context clue I focus on here is the narrator saying “she had the hots for me.” Like “she’s got it bad for you,” it’s a slang expression about lustful attraction. Maybe the overall context is that the meaning is the milder “she is in romantic love with you”, but “had the hots for” is about lust. Maybe this is just the narrator character’s interpretation.
September 2, 2019
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