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carry a torch

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carry a torch (for someone) and carry the torch (for someone)
Fig. to be in love with someone who is not in love with you; to brood over a hopeless love affair. John is carrying a torch for Jane. Is John still carrying a torch after all this time?
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1) LAPD SWAT officers carry a torch in memory of Randal Simmons, who was killed last month.
The baby boomers were around to see these cars at their inception and they still carry a torch for them today.
Sang, who uses a wheelchair, is paralyzed from the chest down but will carry a torch in the Olympic torch relay when the symbolic flame passes through Beijing.
 
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