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French leave

[french leev] / ˈfrɛntʃ ˈliv /


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My efforts at French leave me at once inert and exhausted, as though I’ve been dog-paddling in a pool of standing water.

From The New Yorker Aug. 1, 2016

Spain sent Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to make the French leave Florida.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

The uproar began when Paris discovered that the gunboats and their Israeli crews had taken French leave of their fitting-out berths in Cherbourg.

From Time Magazine Archive

The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Being at present empty, and to let, Sam thought he could do no better than take French leave to make use of it.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood




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