amiss (redirected from would not come amiss)

take something amiss and take something the wrong way

to understand something as wrong or insulting. Would you take it amiss if I told you I thought you look lovely? I was afraid you'd take it the wrong way.

See also: take

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not go amiss  (British, American & Australian informal) also not come amiss (British & Australian informal)

if something would not go amiss, it would be useful and might help to improve a situation (usually in conditional tenses) A word of apology would not go amiss. Some extra helpers never come amiss.