vogue la galèreint.
/ˌvəʊɡ la ɡalˈjɛː/, U.S. /ˌvoʊɡ lɑ ɡɑˈlɛ(ə)r/ Let's get on with it! Let's give it a go!
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > let's give it a go [interjection]
vogue la galère1744
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) lxxviii. 7 My ferefull trust en vogant la galere.]
1744 Lady Hervey Let. 20 Oct. (1821) 86 As long as Mrs. Phipps is well, and Mr. Phipps happy, vogue la galère.
1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. xi. 258 ‘Vogue la Galere!’ he exclaimed, as the carriage went onward; ‘I have sailed through worse perils than this yet.’
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. vi. 63 Eh, vogue la galère, I say. It's good sport, Warrington—not winning merely, but playing.
1909 L. Strachey Let. 13 Oct. in V. Woolf & L. Strachey (1956) 35 My health seems still to be something of a Mahomet's coffin. However, vogue la galère!
a1918 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) v. 594 We'll embark on a new course of education, and vogue la galère.
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int.1744- to lecture it
- to leese one's life-days
- to leese one's lifedays
- to leftward
- to leftward of
- to leg along
- to leg it
- to leg out
- to leg through
- to lend a a helping hand
- to lend a deaf ear
- to lend a hand
- to lend a shoulder
- to lend an ear or one's ears
- to lend an open ear
- to lend audience
- to lend colour
- to lend colour to
- to lend credence to
- to lend forth
- to lend hearing
- to lend on mortgage
- to lend one's name to
- to lend open ear
- to lend out