have a bee in your bonnet

Bedeutung

to keep talking about an idea you consider very important

Ständig von einer Idee reden, die einem sehr wichtig ist.

Beispiele

1. 1Dad has a bee in his bonnet about recycling and brings it up at every meal.
2. 2I've had a bee in my bonnet about the library's short opening hours for months.
3. 3Rosa has a bee in her bonnet: every conversation somehow returns to plastic packaging and how to reduce it.
4. 4Once Dan has a bee in his bonnet, he brings the same proposal to every meeting until we discuss it.
5. 5You have a bee in your bonnet about that font; you've mentioned changing it in all six emails.

Grammatik

have und der Possessivbegleiter passen sich dem Subjekt an: has, had; my, her, their. Oft folgt about mit einem Nomen oder einer -ing-Form.