单词 | in a person's bad books |
释义 | > as lemmasin (also into) a person's bad books (c) in (also into) a person's bad books: in (or into) disfavour with a person. See also black book n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > disfavouring [phrase] > out of favour out of a person's books1509 in bad bread1743 in (also into) a person's bad books1832 in the doghouse1926 1832 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 439/1 It is windmill holiday, and the old ‘milner’, with flourless face and unpowdered coat, travels incognito among his customers, coming suddenly upon some of them who are in his bad books. 1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Church Eng. I. xii. 403 The Arminians, who at that time were in his bad books. 1940 M. Dickens Mariana iv. 110 Geoff, I must go, I daren't get in the old trout's bad books at this stage. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) x. 281 Let us not come into your bad books, if that's at all possible. 2002 BusinessWeek 22 July 50/1 Like most media companies, Pearson is now in investors' bad books. < as lemmas |
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