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leave a bad taste in one's mouth
leave a bad taste in one's mouth
Make a lingering bad impression on one, as in The argument left a bad taste in my mouth, so after that I avoided talking politics. This expression transfers the bad taste left by consuming bitter or otherwise unpleasant food to a distasteful experience. [Mid-1800s]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Daren | | DER-ən, DAR-ən | English |
Phipps | | [fips] | |
Timur | | tee-MOOR (Russian) | History, Tatar, Chechen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Russian |
Gentius | | - | Albanian |
Ronne | | - | Frisian |
Rudd | | [rʌd] | |