| 单词 | take umbrage |
| 释义 | take umbrageSEE SYNONYMS FOR take umbrage ON THESAURUS.COM Feel resentment, take offense, as in Aunt Agatha is quick to take umbrage at any suggestion to do things differently. This expression features one of the rare surviving uses of umbrage, which now means “resentment” but comes from the Latin umbra, for “shade,” and presumably alludes to the “shadow” of displeasure. [Late 1600s] Words nearby take umbragetake to heart, take to one's heels, take to task, take to the cleaners, take turns, take umbrage, take-up, take up a collection, take up arms, take up for, take up on The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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