John: The coffee was great Mark, my compliments. Mark: You are being too kind. Do you want some cookies? John: I'm sorry, but I have a meeting in a few minutes, I take my leave.
Urban English dictionary. 2013.
take French leave — 1. To depart without notice or permission 2. To disappear suspiciously • • • Main Entry: ↑French * * * take French leave phrase to take time away from your job without asking for permission Thesaurus: time off from workhyponym … Useful english dictionary
take your leave — take (your) leave to go away from a gathering. Barlow could only manage a few brief words before taking his leave of this group of happy supporters … New idioms dictionary
take your leave — old fashioned phrase to say goodbye Thesaurus: goodbyes and to say goodbyehyponym ways of saying hellosynonym Main entry: leave … Useful english dictionary
take (your) leave (of somebody) — take (your) ˈleave (of sb) idiom (formal) to say goodbye • With a nod and a smile, she took leave of her friends. Main entry: ↑leaveidiom … Useful english dictionary
take or leave — phrasal 1. : to accept or reject solely according to one s judgment or inclination often of the moment a singer I can take or leave Charles Miller imply that peace is something we Americans can take or leave R.J.Bunche 2. : to give or take left… … Useful english dictionary
take French leave — {v. phr.} To leave secretly; abscond. * /The party was so boring that we decided to take French leave./ * /While the Smith family was in Europe, the house sitter packed up all the silver and took French leave./ See: SLIP AWAY … Dictionary of American idioms
take French leave — {v. phr.} To leave secretly; abscond. * /The party was so boring that we decided to take French leave./ * /While the Smith family was in Europe, the house sitter packed up all the silver and took French leave./ See: SLIP AWAY … Dictionary of American idioms
take\ French\ leave — v. phr. To leave secretly; abscond. The party was so boring that we decided to take French leave. While the Smith family was in Europe, the house sitter packed up all the silver and took French leave. See: slip away … Словарь американских идиом
take your leave of — to bereave The final parting: ... so absolutely unlike the way Frank would have wished to take his leave of us. (M. Thomas, 1982 Frank had died) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
take french leave — Depart informally, take leave unceremoniously … New dictionary of synonyms
take French leave — verb a) To leave unannounced b) to desert. to go AWOL Syn: abscond, AWOL … Wiktionary
