/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Good Graces (To get into one’s)
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To be in favour with.
“Having continued to get into the good graces of the buxom widow.”—Dickens: Pickwick, chap. xiv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.