Talk:have a thirst on

RFD discussion: May–September 2022
See WT:Tea room/2022/May. This use of on is not as common outside of Irish grammar, but the longer phrase is SOP; one can have "a" or "the hunger" instead of "a thirst"; "have" is also not essential and is indeed dwarfed by the [//books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=have+a+thirst+on%2C+thirst+is+on&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chave%20a%20thirst%20on%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthirst%20is%20on%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Chave%20a%20thirst%20on%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthirst%20is%20on%3B%2Cc0 more common phrasing "thirst is on"] someone, or "sadness is on" them, etc, besides there being other "have"- and "is"-less phrasings like "Christ, the thirst on me", "She can see the thirst on me", "fever hot, and the thirst on me", "the cold brings the hunger on me". - -sche (discuss) 17:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, but maybe a usex at thirst would be informative. Facts707 (talk) 13:33, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ... added the usex. Facts707 (talk) 05:31, 18 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Redirected to on where I added a sense. - -sche (discuss) 07:50, 20 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Kept and re-redirected to thirst Almostonurmind (talk) 11:53, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * It has been redirected to on not thirst in fact (an outcome that I’m happy with). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:00, 24 September 2022 (UTC)