take umbrage

English

Verb

take umbrage (third-person singular simple present takes umbrage, present participle taking umbrage, simple past took umbrage, past participle taken umbrage)

To take offense.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
  “She took umbrage?”
  “Yes, and she also took my head off. I don't know if you have ever been in a typhoon on the Indian Ocean.”
To become angry and resentful.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
  I know if anyone called me a carrot-topped Jezebel, umbrage is the first thing I'd take.

Translations

to take offense

Hungarian: megütközik

to become angry and resentful

Hungarian: megütközik

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