get in(to) (one's) good graces Idiom, Proverb

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in her good graces

being liked by her, doing what she likes If you are in her good graces, you will be invited to her tea party.

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airs and graces

London cockney rhyming slang for faces/braces/Epsom races

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in one's bad graces|bad graces|graces

adj. phr. Not approved by; not liked by. John was in his mother's bad graces because he spilled his milk on the tablecloth. Don got in the bad graces of the teacher by laughing at her hat.
Compare: DOWN ON, IN BAD, OUT OF FAVOR.
Antonym: IN ONE S GOOD GRACES.

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in one's good books|books|good books|good graces|g

adv. phr. Approved of by you; liked by someone. Ruth is in her mother's good graces because she ate all her supper. Bill is back in the good graces of his girlfriend because he gave her a box of candy.
Compare: IN GOOD.
Antonym: IN ONE'S BAD GRACES.

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good graces

good graces
see in someone's good graces.

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in someone's bad graces

in someone's bad graces
Also, in someone's bad books. Out of favor with someone. For example, Harry's tardiness put him in the teacher's bad graces, or Making fun of the director is bound to get you in his bad books. The use of grace in the sense of “favor” dates from the 1400s; the use of books dates from the early 1800s. Also see black book, def. 1; in someone's good graces.

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in someone's good graces

in someone's good graces
Also, in someone's good books; in the good graces of. In someone's favor or good opinion, as in Ruth is back in her mother's good graces, or Bill is anxious to get in the boss's good books, or She was always in the good graces of whoever happened to be in charge. The use of good grace dates from the 1400s, grace alluding to the condition of being favored; good books dates from the early 1800s. One antonym is out of someone's good graces, as in Walking out on his speech got him out of the professor's good graces. Another is in someone's bad graces.

get in(to) (one's) acceptable graces

To appear to be in one's favor; to accretion or acquire one's approval or regard. I charge admit, she's gotten into my acceptable graces afterwards aggregate she's done for our family. He's aggravating to get in the boss's acceptable graces in the hopes of advancing his career.Learn more: get, good, grace

good graces, to be/get in one's

To allude oneself into favor, to ingratiate oneself. “Good graces” has meant the action or act of actuality advantaged back the fifteenth aeon and appears throughout English literature. The seventeenth-century diarist John Evelyn wrote (Memoirs, 1675), “A active adolescent adult abundant in the acceptable graces of the family.”Learn more: get, good, to

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