be in someone's black books
be in (one's) black books
To have fallen out of favor with one. I don't think I'll come to the party on Saturday—I'm in Jenny's black books at the moment.
See also: black, book
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
be in someone's black books
be in disfavour with someone.Although a black book was generally an official book in which misdemeanours and their perpetrators were noted down, this phrase perhaps originated in the black-bound book in which evidence of monastic scandals and abuses was recorded by Henry VIII's commissioners in the 1530s, before the suppression of the monasteries.
See also: black, book
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- be in (one's) black books
- in (someone's) black books
- black and blue
- black-and-blue
- pitch black
- BLM
- (as) black as thunder
- thunder
- (as) black as the minister's coat
- minister