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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 |
Ingeborg | | ING-e-bawrk (German) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German |
Lyudmila | | lyood-MEE-lah (Russian) | Russian, Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic |
Pernel | | - | English (Archaic) |
Benny | | ['beni] | |
Pilypas | | - | Lithuanian |
Herut | | - | Hebrew |