Advertisement
Advertisement
take offense
Idioms and Phrases
Feel resentment or emotional pain, as in I didn't realize he'd take offense when he wasn't invited . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
She鈥檚 an artist now grappling with the challenges of playing "full on" in a way that accommodates the vicissitudes of aging and the demands of critics and fans who seem to take offense when a female artist is no longer 25, the ones complaining on Reddit fan forums that she鈥檚 鈥渃hanged鈥 from who she was 30 years ago.
She had only just started wearing jeans, she told me with a shy look, afraid that he would take offense to such a digression.
They don鈥檛 take pride where it鈥檚 due and take offense too easily.
Small business owners and entrepreneurs in the South Asian communities may well take offense at the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the Left.
The Chavez family letter expressed gratitude for those pallbearers, but noted that while other elected officials and future political candidates had been among them, 鈥淭o our knowledge, none of them have featured images carrying the casket in their political campaign materials and promotions. We take offense at the use of such sacred moments purely for political purposes.鈥
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse