in favour

Meaning

1. Oxford67% of films

   if you are in favour of sb / sth, you support and agree with them / it

   After long consideration and much consultation, I am in favour of the abolition of the slave trade.

   Who are in favour that we replace the tyres by the cones?

In the movies · 5

• Who are in favour that we replace the tyres by the cones?Senna2010
• After long consideration and much consultation, I am in favour of the abolition of the slave trade.Amazing Grace2006
• All those in favour of racing.Rush2013
• As for the favour you ask, it is no favour at all.Pride & Prejudice2005
• The total number of votes cast in favour of Leave wasBrexit: The Uncivil War2019
• A little, by your favour.Twelfth Night2012
• Return the favour.Madame Web2024
• The mood may even be swinging back in your favour.Amazing Grace2006

Learn it in full scenes

• Amazing Grace2006
  • Wilberforce Meets Barbara in Bath
  • Wilberforce Tells Richard He Found God
  • Pitt Asks Wilberforce to Return
• Twelfth Night2012
  • Orsino's Speech on Music and Love
  • Viola Disguises Herself as a Man
  • Sir Andrew Boasts About Dancing

From the same entry

• do no favours
• do me a favour
• curry favour
• without fear or favour
• the cards are stacked in your favour

More idioms

• the moment
• to face
• be expecting a baby
• off the top of your head
• one of those days
• be hard on
• on the whole
• blow your mind
• at heart
• don't ask me
• get to the bottom of
• have the time of your life