מצא חן בעיניי (matsa chen be'einai)

Meaning: It pleased me; I liked it.

Language: Hebrew

Literally: It found grace in my eyes

Category: Body & Senses

Origin: A biblical Hebrew phrase still used in everyday speech for finding something or someone agreeable.

More idioms — Body & Senses

• Дати драла (Daty drala) — To run away fast.
• Anar a pams — To proceed carefully, step by step.
• Tocar el dos — To clear off; to leave in a hurry.
• Að leggja höfuðið í bleyti — To sleep on a problem and think hard about it.
• Að kasta til höndunum — To do a job carelessly and in haste.
• Að taka einhvern á beinið — To give someone a stern talking-to.

More Hebrew idioms

• תפסת מרובה לא תפסת (Tafasta merubah lo tafasta) — Overreach for too much and you end up with nothing.
• שבר את הראש (shavar et harosh) — To rack your brains over something.
• יצא מכליו (Yatsa miklav) — To lose your temper; to be beside yourself.
• חבל על הזמן (Ḥaval ʿal ha-zman) — Amazing, fantastic — though it literally means 'a waste of time'.
• על הפנים (al hapanim) — Terrible, awful, in a wretched state.
• לאכול סרטים (Le'ekhol sratim) — To overthink and imagine dramatic worst-case scenarios.

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