be in someone's favour
1in someone's favour — 1) helping you, or giving you an advantage be/work/count/go etc in someone s favour: The delay might actually work in our favour. 2) showing who an amount of money written on a cheque should be paid to He had tricked her into writing a cheque in… …
2(the) cards are stacked in someone's favour — the cards are stacked in someone’s favour informal phrase used for saying that someone will probably be successful Thesaurus: to be likely to succeedsynonym Main entry: card …
3the cards are stacked in someone's favour — informal used for saying that someone will probably be successful …
4favour — fa|vour1 W2S1 BrE favor AmE [ˈfeıvə US ər] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(help)¦ 2¦(support/approval)¦ 3¦(popular/unpopular)¦ 4¦(advantage)¦ 5¦(choose something instead)¦ 6 do somebody/something no favours 7¦(unfair support)¦ …
5favour — 1 BrE, favor AmE noun 1 HELP (C) something that you do for someone in order to help them or be kind to them : ask a favour (of sb): Can I ask a favor of you? | do sb a favour: Could you do me a favour and turn off that light? | do sth as a favour …
6favour — I UK [ˈfeɪvə(r)] / US [ˈfeɪvər] noun Word forms favour : singular favour plural favours *** 1) [countable] something that you do for someone in order to help them do someone a favour: Could you do me a favour? ask a favour of someone: Can I ask a …
7favour — [[t]fe͟ɪvə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ favours, favouring, favoured (in AM, use favor) 1) N UNCOUNT If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them. It remains to be seen if the show will still find favour with a 1990s audience... No one… …
8favour with — ˈfavour with [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they favour with he/she/it favours with present participle favouring with past tense favoured with …
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10favour*/*/ — [ˈfeɪvə] noun I 1) [C] something that you do for someone in order to help them Could you do me a favour?[/ex] He wouldn t take any money for his work: he insisted he was doing it as a favour.[/ex] 2) [U] support or admiration from people Nuclear… …
