The phrase "a torch for him" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to indicate guidance, inspiration, or support for someone.
Example: "In times of uncertainty, her wisdom served as a torch for him, illuminating the path ahead."
Alternatives: "a guiding light for him" or "a beacon for him".
Now a prominent New York fashion designer, Norma is a divorcée who, as Cliff discovers, has carried a torch for him since they last met, twenty years earlier.
She carried a torch for him for all the years that he was gone, and now she resents the love he still has for his wife.
Monckton, Lady Annabel Goldsmith and Paul Burrell, Diana's butler, all said that the princess was still not over her relationship with Khan and still held a torch for him.
After a series of comic misunderstandings and melodramatic confrontations with his bewildered parents, Silvio ends up with Claudia (Giulia Steigerwalt), who has been quietly carrying a torch for him for six months.
I've carried a torch for him ever since he had an unexpectedly tender thing with Sigourney Weaver in Alien 3, before he got done in and she returned to glumly taking out the space trash.
Just as Steven is about to book passage for a madcap adventure with Genevieve in Finland, however, his dutiful secretary, Linda Brown Mary Catherine Garrisonn), confesses that she has long carried a torch for him.
But the Internet was clearly still carrying a collective torch for Tonga's flag bearer, Pita Taukatofua.
Young initially confirmed that Romney had given him a torch for his office, and told HuffPost that he still, in fact, had the torch.
In those days he was still unashamedly carrying a torch for Ms. Wynette, who had left him because, as she put it in legal papers she filed, he "drinks to such an extent that he becomes completely and absolutely unmanageable".
However, if you're concerned that your friend is starting to hold a torch for you, immediately piss yourself in front of him at your next buddy-hang.
