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Phrase(s): take a dim view of someone or something
to disapprove of someone or something. • Of all the boys, the teacher likes Dave the least. She takes a dim view of him. • I take a dim view of that law.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Regard disapprovingly, as in I take a dim view of meeting every single week. This idiom, which uses dim in the sense of "unfavorable," was first recorded in 1947.
American Heritage Idioms