in someone's good graces

Idioms and Phrases

Also, in someone's good books ; in the good graces of . In someone's favor or good opinion, as in Ruth is back in her mother's good graces , or Bill is anxious to get in the boss's good books , or She was always in the good graces of whoever happened to be in charge . The use of good grace dates from the 1400s, grace alluding to the condition of being favored; good books dates from the early 1800s. One antonym is out of someone's good graces , as in Walking out on his speech got him out of the professor's good graces . Another is in someone's bad graces .