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

From Time Magazine Archive

This time Father Claude Rains is a sort of early-bird Enoch Arden, vagabonding back to mother and the girls after 20 years of French leave just as mother is fixing to marry again.

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 Wood, Mrs. Henry




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