Meaning of take kindly | Babel Free

Definitions

To like, accept, or condone.

idiomatic

Examples

“An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come⟳ to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat, […]”

“My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take⟳ kindly to this gay progress⟳, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train⟳ with lumps of coal!”

“The host⟳ of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take⟳ kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.”

“It seemed to John like⟳ the sort⟳ of place⟳ where the people all knew one another, were likely to have⟳ guns for protection, and rarely took kindly to strangers.”

“The young Darrow did not always take⟳ kindly to his father's strict ways. He was a disciplined student only when he liked what he was doing.”

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