carry a torch for (someone)

old-fashioned

to secretly love someone who does not love you.

Graeme's been carrying a torch for Linda for years.

• lone voice in the wilderness
• lone wolf
• long and the short of it
• long arm of the law
• long face
• long haul
• long in the tooth
• long on
• long on and short on
• long on and short on something
• long on and short on something else
• long on something
• long on something and short on
• long on something and short on something
• long on something and short on something else
• long shot
• long-term
• Long time no see.
• long-winded
• look after
• look after someone
• look after something
• look a gift horse in the mouth
• look ahead
• look a million dollars