| 释义 |
by your leave, n.
[f. phr. by your leave: see leave n. 1.]
An expression of apology for not having asked permission; the asking of permission.
1914H. R. Martin Barnabetta xii. 106 She was sportively handling huge sums like this without a By-Your-Leave. 1924W. M. Raine Troubled Waters i. 13 ‘With not even a by your leave. You're a claim jumper,’ she said. 1936Scrutiny V. 38 Jung, indeed, insists that he is a bold man nowadays who would roundly declare, without so much as by-your-leave from the doctor, that he is altogether free of it [sc. neurosis]. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair viii. 90 He picked Robert's glass out of his hand without a by-your-leave and rose to fill it. |
