释义 |
take leave to do something formal Venture or presume to do something: whether this amounts to much, one may take leave to doubt...- If there is a problem with mainstream media bias, which I take leave to doubt, the solution is not in a million blogs but in the conscious and deliberate pursuit of objectivity and even-handed treatment of the news.
- In my calmer moments, however, I take leave to doubt whether that is so.
- Otherwise, they might find hungry folks taking leave to make a fuel stop at the petrol station next door.
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