Brewer's: Good Graces

(To get into one's). To be in favour with.

“Having continued to get into the good graces of the buxom widow.” —Dickens: Pickwick, chap. xiv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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