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Definition 2024

take_a_French_leave

French leave

English

Noun

French leave ‎(uncountable)

A sudden or unannounced departure, or one taken without permission.
- 2010, William Marvel, The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War, page 10:
  he may have felt a particular need to mitigate the responsibility of those who shirked their duty, for as he wrote that letter he had just returned from French leave himself.

Coordinate terms

duck out

Translations

a sudden or unannounced departure

Finnish: liukeneminen (fi), häipyminen, haihtuminen (fi); punttis (fi) (military)
French: filer à l'anglaise (fr) (take English leave)
German: französischer Abschied m (take French leave)
Polish: wyjście po angielsku n (take English leave)
Portuguese: saída à francesa f (take French leave)

Russian: ухо́д по-англи́йски m ‎(uxód po-anglíjski) (take English leave)
Serbo-Croatian: angolosan távozik (take English leave)
Spanish: despedida a la francesa f (take French leave)
Swedish: bondpermission (sv) c, (colloquially) bondpermis (sv) c