catch feelings

English

Verb

catch feelings (third-person singular simple present catches feelings, present participle catching feelings, simple past and past participle caught feelings)

1. (intransitive, colloquial) To suddenly begin to feel romantic attraction (towards). [with for ‘someone’]
   • 2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     The deal was that if anyone started catching feelings, he could throw up a stop sign and the other would honor it.

Further reading

• “catch feelings”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.