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by (or with) your leave1With your permission: with your leave, I will send him your address...- Even by your leave Robin, it is not fitting for my order to strike a yeoman for fear an injury he may receive.
- Member for Lewes (Mr. Baker), and with your leave, Mr. O'Brien, he will speak to amendment No.27 in a moment.
- And finally, with your leave, I'll sit down and satisfy my cravings of to-day, and leave to-morrow to shift for itself - who knows but what I may secure both this and that?
2 informal An apology for rude or unwelcome behaviour: she came in without so much as a by your leave...- I was put on hold without so much as a by your leave.
- No, here were some of the top people in the dotcom world and these youngsters just walked out on them in mid sentence without a by your leave.
- My Lord, I ask for leave to appeal in respect of both of your Lordship's decisions, and with your leave I will go on to say why?
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