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best pleased en · X
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(UK, idiomatic, with negative) displeased, upset, disgruntled
Satisfaction levels among performers might be generally high, but there are whispers from old-school theatre folk that they're not best pleased about Hollywood coming in and stealing the limelight.
2010 June 14, Carrie Dunn, “Tony awards: Hollywood invasion provokes Broadway stage whispers”, in The Guardian, London:Can't say we'd be best pleased if the terrifying sound of explosives was going on underneath our bedroom window, but the assembled crowd seem to enjoy it.
2014 December, “Bosnian family sets off 15,000 firecrackers in weird Christmas tradition”, in entertainment.ie:They said: “I'm hardly best pleased to receive this and neither, I presume, are all the others whose confidentiality has been breached by this.”
2017 August 29, Gayle McDonald, “Council investigation after it accidentally reveals email addresses of 200 Plymouth residents”, in Plymouth Herald: