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Idiom: Leave a bad taste in your mouth
The idiom leave a bad taste in one’s mouth has nothing to do with eating or bad-tasting toothpaste.
It deals with feelings.
Have you ever been treated rudely or poorly in a restaurant or store?
How did you feel about that experience?
I bet that experience left a bad taste in your mouth.
What I mean is that the unpleasant experience gave you the wrong impression of the business or at least of the person who was rude to you.
That experience was a real turn-off which left a bad taste in your mouth.
Whenever an experience leaves you with a negative impression, you can say it left a bad taste in your mouth.
Restaurants are not the only places that can leave a bad taste in your mouth, though.
Rude behaviour is all around us.
I can’t remember how many times I have seen an elderly person or a person with special needs, such as a pregnant lady or someone with little children, standing on public transportation because obnoxious, able-bodied people were sitting in the so-called reserved seats.
I hope you always have only pleasant experiences, but if you don’t, at least now you can tell your friends that you experienced something that left a bad taste in your mouth.
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