in (someone's) bad books

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in (someone's) bad books

Having fallen out of favor with someone. I don't think I'll come to the party on Saturday, I'm in Jenny's bad books at the moment.

in someone's bad books

BRITISH, INFORMAL

If you are in someone's bad books, you have done something that has annoyed them. Sir John was definitely in the Treasury's bad books for incorrect thinking on economic prospects. Thomas gloomily speculated that he might be the next to be in Mrs Simpson's bad books.

in someone's bad (or good) books

in disfavour (or favour) with someone.

See also: bad, book

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in someone's bad books
bad news bears
bad iron
have a bad opinion of (someone or something)
have a good, bad, high, low, etc. opinion of somebody/something
it's the story of my life
(it's/that's the) story of my life
as bad as all that
a bad taste in (one's)/the mouth
a bad taste in the mouth

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