French leave
Example Sentences
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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 colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled.
From Time Magazine Archive
In England, they "take French leave"; but in France we "take English leave," and we are quits.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell
