To be offended by; to consider offensive.“” in Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898).“exception” in Charlton Laird, Webster's New World Thesaurus, third edition, Simon and Schuster (2003), ISBN 978-0-7434-7071-1, .“take exception to” in Ilo Stefanllari, English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms, Hippocrene Books (2000), ISBN 978-0-7818-0783-8,
Upset, about 20 Kuala Lumpur-based judges met on 25 March and decided that Salleh should write to the king explaining their position. The king apparently took exception to the letter or to the manner in which it was sent.