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 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
They had hardly expected the predawn arrival; but then, they had hardly expected their President to stir up such a fuss in Canada that he would have to take French leave and hurry home.
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 O'Rell, Max
