best pleased

English

Phrase

best pleased

1. (British, idiomatic, with negative) displeased, upset, disgruntled
   • 2010 June 14, Carrie Dunn, “Tony awards: Hollywood invasion provokes Broadway stage whispers”, in The Guardian, London:

     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.

   • 2014 December, “Bosnian family sets off 15,000 firecrackers in weird Christmas tradition”, in entertainment.ie‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2017 August 29, Gayle McDonald, “Council investigation after it accidentally reveals email addresses of 200 Plymouth residents”, in Plymouth Herald:

     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.”