take the fancy; get under someone's skin(I used to hate the city, but after a while it kind of got under my skin. • The actress accepted the role because the character really got under her skin.)
take to something like a duck to water(только в контексте • I think we can say that Russians have taken to День святого Валентина (aka St. Valentine's Day) like a duck to water. (M. Berdy; example courtesy of Игорь Миг); fix one's affections on(someone – кого-либо Bobrovska)
cotton to("He was so much fun to have in the company. He had that warm, inviting voice. Audiences just cottoned to him." – Gary Gisselman, quoted in The Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 3 Mar. 2016 VLZ_58); get/go all lovey-dovey(politicians who suddenly go/get all lovey-dovey after criticizing each other for years VLZ_58); warm up to(He warmed up to the idea. – Идея ему понравилась. VLZ_58)
well-loved(Green Bay's well-loved piers will be back in action by early fall! Repair work on Appleton and Chesterfield piers is to begin in mid-June.ART Vancouver)
