по нраву

• ПО НРАВУ кому coll

[PrepP; Invar; subj-compl with быть, прийтись (subj: usu. abstr or human); more often neg]

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⇒ a person (phenomenon etc) is pleasing, appealing to s.o.:

- X Y-у по нраву{{}}≈ X suits Y;

- X is to Y's liking;

- X is Y's cup of tea;

- Y took a fancy <a shine> to X;

|| Neg X Y-у не по нраву{{}}≈ X rubs Y the wrong way;

- Y has no taste for thing X;

- thing X goes against Y's grain;

- Y doesn't care for X.

     ♦ ...Физически не может советская власть выпустить на свободу хоть листик один, который им не по нраву (Солженицын 2). ...It is impossible, physically impossible, for the Soviet regime to release so much as a single sheet of paper that is not to its liking (2a).

     ♦ [У Риты] началось новое увлечение: прогулки пешие, на велосипеде, на лыжах - с Гартвигом... Гартвиг в шортах... скакал по кочкам... Рита, задыхаясь, поспешала за ним, а мне такая гонка была не по нраву (Трифонов 5)... Now she [Rita] had a new diversion: excursions by foot, by bicycle, and on skis with Gartvig. ...There was Gartvig...leaping...from one knoll to another. And gasping for breath, Rita would go hurrying after him. As for me, I had no taste for such dashing around (5a).