strike someone's fancy

strike someone's fancy (third-person singular simple present strikes someone's fancy, present participle struck someone's fancy, simple past and past participle struck someone's fancy or (archaic) stricken someone's fancy)

1. To attract or appeal to someone.

   Synonyms: take someone's fancy, catch someone's fancy

   Some of the china ornaments in the gift shop struck my fancy.

• tickle someone's fancy

• “strike someone's fancy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “strike your fancy” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “strike someone's fancy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.