put (something) to the torch イディオム
carry a torch for
Idiom(s): carry a torch (for sb)Theme: LOVE
to be in love with someone who is not in love with you; to brood over a hopeless love affair. (Also with the.)
• John is carrying a torch for Jane.
• Is John still carrying a torch?
• Yes, he'll carry the torch for months.
Hold the torch
If you hold the torch for someone, you have an unrequited or unspoken love.Take up the torch
If you take up the torch, you take on a challenge or responsibility, usually when someone else retires, or leaves an organisation, etc.carry a torch|carry|carry the torch|torch
v. phr. 1. To show great and unchanging loyalty to a cause or a person. Although the others gave up fighting for their rights, John continued to carry the torch. 2. informal To be in love, usually without success or return. He is carrying a torch for Anna, even though she is in love with someone else.carry the torch
carry the torchsee carry a torch for.
pass the torch
pass the torchAlso, hand on the torch. Relinquish responsibilities, a tradition, practice, or knowledge to another. For example, When the company's founder became too ill to continue, he passed the torch to his nephew. This metaphoric expression alludes to the ancient Greek torch race, in which a lighted torch was passed from one runner to the next. A translation from both Greek and Latin, the English version dates from the late 1800s.
torch
torchsee carry a torch for; pass the torch.
put (something) to the torch
To set blaze to article with the ambition of antibacterial it. The soldiers stormed through the village, putting homes to the bake as they went. Many angelic scriptures of the adoration were put to the bake during the war.Learn more: put, torchput to the bake (or put a bake to)
abort by burning.Learn more: put, torchput article to the ˈtorch
(literary) set blaze to article deliberately: The aboriginal alcazar was put to the bake in the 18th century, although it was rebuilt later.Learn more: put, something, torchput to the torch
To abort by fire; bake down.Learn more: put, torch
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