take kindly

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === take kindly (third-person singular simple present takes kindly, present participle taking kindly, simple past took kindly, past participle taken kindly) [with to] (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To like, accept, or condone. 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiii: An English passenger, taking kindly to 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, […] ==== Usage notes ==== Sometimes used colloquially of inanimate objects: the equipment did not take kindly to being stored in a damp room for months on end. === References === “not take kindly to”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.