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leave a bad taste (in your mouth)

Definition

to cause an unpleasant memory: The way the waitress treated us left a bad taste in my mouth and I never went back.
(Definition of leave a bad taste (in your mouth) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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