terminal leave
noun
: a final leave consisting of accumulated unused leave granted to a member of the armed forces just prior to separation or discharge from service
Word History
First Known Use
1944, in the meaning defined above
- (all) choked up
- (all) for the best
- (all) in good time
- (all) in one whack
- (all) round the year
- (all) the best
- (all) the livelong day
- (all) the more so
- (all) the rage
- (and) not before time (too)
- (as) American as apple pie
- (as) big as life
- (as) blind as a bat
- (as) bold as brass
- (as) clear as a bell
- (as) cute as a button
- (as) daft as a brush
- (as) dead as a dodo
- (as) dead as a doornail
- (as) drunk as a lord
- (as) drunk as a skunk
- (as) dry as a bone
- (as) dull as dishwater
- (as) dull as ditchwater
- (as) easy as ABC