take kindly | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,chiefly in the negative)Tolike,accept, orcondone.1927-29,M.K. Gandhi,The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated1940byMahadev Desai,Part I, Chapter xiii:An English passenger,taking kindlyto 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,[…]1954July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, inRailway Magazine, page488:My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did nottake kindlyto this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!1961January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, inTrains Illustrated, page19:The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcelytake kindlyto 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.2014, Sean Platt, David W. Wright,Available Darkness:It seemed to John like the sort of place where the people all knew one another, were likely to have guns for protection, and rarelytook kindlyto strangers.2020, Diana Klebanon, Franklin L. Jonas, Diana Klebanow,People's Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History:The young Darrow did not alwaystake kindlyto his father's strict ways. He was a disciplined student only when he liked what he was doing.

Examples:

EN: The police don't take kindly to such conduct.
ES: A la policía no se sienta muy bien este tipo de escándalos.
EN: I don't take kindly to that at all. He knows there's no stage until tomorrow... and he knows that I'm afoot.
ES: ÉI sabe que no hay diligencia hasta mañana.
EN: Trying to tell us that they don't take kindly to strangers in Fargo Mr. Bender?
ES: ¿Quiere decir... que no tratan amablemente a los forasteros... en Fargo, Sr. Bender?
EN: - I don't think he'd take kindly to the idea, Ma'am.
ES: Creo que no le agradaría.
EN: Besides, he don't take kindly to using a shovel.
ES: Además, no usó una pala, sino un taco de dinamita.
EN: I don't imagine he's a man who'd take kindly to losing that position.
ES: No creo que sea un hombre que tome amablemente a perder esa posición.
EN: I wouldn't take kindly to it.
ES: No me sentaría bien.
EN: It's just that we don't take kindly to strangers, that's all.
ES: No tratamos con desconocidos, nada más.
EN: I've warned you before that we don't take kindly to people who break the team's rules.
ES: Te he advertido antes que no nos gusta la gente que rompe las reglas.
EN: They tell me moreover that you don't take kindly to discipline, that you're a gambler, and that you drink too much.
ES: Dicen, además, que no se somete de buen grado a la disciplina, que le gustan las timbas, y que abusa de la bebida.
EN: I'm sorry I dinna take kindly to Mr. Samson.
ES: Lamento no haber tomado más agradablemente al Sr. Samson.
EN: Nothing personal intended, Mr. Parrish... But out here we just don't take kindly to strangers who come among us... And try to use our law to settle their private grudges.
ES: No se ofenda, Sr. Parrish, pero por aquí no nos tomamos bien que vengan forasteros... e intenten servirse de nuestra ley para ajustar sus cuentas.
EN: Look, I don't take kindly to you and Falco teaching me ethics.
ES: No voy a tolerar que usted y Falco me den clases de ética.
EN: I don't think they'll take kindly to that.
ES: - No creo que estén dispuestos.
EN: The community didn't take kindly to this.
ES: A la comunidad no le hizo gracia.

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