good graces

Idioms  

1. see in one's good graces.

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Example Sentences

This may have been because he was a foreigner, or a calculating businessman, but Ms. Goldring makes the case that it was Holbein’s irreplaceable artistic prowess that kept him in the king’s good graces.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Anyone remotely familiar with recent debates in constitutional law will understand why: Substantive due process has not been of late in the good graces of this Court — and especially of the Members of today’s majority,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

How could I get into the good graces of this man?

From Literature

“If you assumed he knew, then why would you have to tell him? Were you just trying to get back in his good graces so he was only mad at one of us?”

From Literature

Heading out of the set-up and good graces of Galthie can be a one-way trip.

From BBC