Definition of by-your-leave in US English:
by-your-leave
nounˌbaɪjɔrˈlivˌbīyôrˈlēvˌbaɪjɔrˈliv
Request for permission.
he borrowed my car without so much as a by-your-leave
See also leave
Example sentencesExamples
- They take our licence fee, without so much as a by-your-leave, and then pump out scores of adverts glorying in their own ability.
- Without much by-your-leave I start to take off the scarf and the glasses.
- Hygiene experts can say all they like about chucking your slap out every three months - but what's a girl to do if cosmetics manufacturers persist in discontinuing, say, ‘Rouge Eclat’ without so much as a by-your-leave?
- I plug in another drive, a portable one I use for non-mission-critical backup; the folder transfers without so much as a by-your-leave.
- Well, how rude. ‘Don't you turn your back on me without even a by-your-leave,’ Eita strode after him.
- It is a novel which plucks the reader up only to plunk him down, firmly, in the muck and mire of everyday life, with nary by-your-leave nor apology tendered.
- Imagine nominating a sycophantic nobody just when your poll numbers have given the mainstream media a by-your-leave to turn on the heat for your cronyism and machine politics.
- And without even a by-your-leave, one of the receptionists stuck a digital thermometer in my ear, and took my temperature.
- His obsessive knee-jerk reaction of jumping onto the country's retaliatory bandwagon without a by-your-leave demonstrates what an excuse for a leader we have.
- Sarah was just about to mount onto one when Fin without so much as a by-your-leave hoisted her up into the saddle and the tied her horse to his.
- The government of the United States will ask not so much as a by-your-leave.
- Asha goes looking for her roots in rural Tamil Nadu and finds that people cut into conversation without so much as a by-your-leave; getting into a bus or train was always a test of Darwin's theory that the fittest alone could survive.
- I tried to curse the selkie for pushing me into the portal without so much as a by-your-leave, but for some reason my voice wasn't working.
Definition of by-your-leave in US English:
by-your-leave
nounˌbaɪjɔrˈlivˌbīyôrˈlēv
Request for permission.
he borrowed my car without so much as a by-your-leave
See also leave
Example sentencesExamples
- Sarah was just about to mount onto one when Fin without so much as a by-your-leave hoisted her up into the saddle and the tied her horse to his.
- I plug in another drive, a portable one I use for non-mission-critical backup; the folder transfers without so much as a by-your-leave.
- Well, how rude. ‘Don't you turn your back on me without even a by-your-leave,’ Eita strode after him.
- Without much by-your-leave I start to take off the scarf and the glasses.
- Asha goes looking for her roots in rural Tamil Nadu and finds that people cut into conversation without so much as a by-your-leave; getting into a bus or train was always a test of Darwin's theory that the fittest alone could survive.
- His obsessive knee-jerk reaction of jumping onto the country's retaliatory bandwagon without a by-your-leave demonstrates what an excuse for a leader we have.
- Imagine nominating a sycophantic nobody just when your poll numbers have given the mainstream media a by-your-leave to turn on the heat for your cronyism and machine politics.
- I tried to curse the selkie for pushing me into the portal without so much as a by-your-leave, but for some reason my voice wasn't working.
- Hygiene experts can say all they like about chucking your slap out every three months - but what's a girl to do if cosmetics manufacturers persist in discontinuing, say, ‘Rouge Eclat’ without so much as a by-your-leave?
- It is a novel which plucks the reader up only to plunk him down, firmly, in the muck and mire of everyday life, with nary by-your-leave nor apology tendered.
- And without even a by-your-leave, one of the receptionists stuck a digital thermometer in my ear, and took my temperature.
- They take our licence fee, without so much as a by-your-leave, and then pump out scores of adverts glorying in their own ability.
- The government of the United States will ask not so much as a by-your-leave.