单词 | in somebody's good/bad/black books |
释义 | in somebody's good/bad/black books in favour or disfavour with somebody ‘It seems to me, Harry, that you do not approve of what any of us are doing,’ said she. ‘I fear we are all in your black books.’ — Trollope [the ‘book’ was originally a record of those liable to reward or punishment; the ‘black book’ may have its origin in a book bound in black used as a record of scandals in the monasteries before their suppression under Henry VIII in the1530s.]Main Entry: book |
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