laisser aller
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This was only natural, seeing that he had not yet instilled into us his own attractive habit of laisser aller and laisser faire, and that his red trousers offered such a beautiful mark.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various
So laisser aller is the cry of the age, a dead negation of thought and volition.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Excellent!—only not so much laisser aller; a little more stiff—more drawn up!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Nothing offends an eye accustomed to our native laisser aller so much as a well-brushed hat and shining boots.
From Worldly Ways and Byways by Eliot Gregory
I had enjoyed the singing in St. Petersburg, but there was a laisser aller, a completely gay spirit, in this Christmas-Eve gypsy party in Moscow which was much more “whirling away.”
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
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