by your leave
See also: by-your-leave
English
Prepositional phrase
- With your permission.
- 1983, Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
- She leaned over and picked up Lightning. "By your leave, your Grace."
- 2006, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- "By your leave, Mr. Turner" […] "By YOUR leave, Mr. Norrington."
- 1983, Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Noun
by your leave (plural by your leaves)
- Request for permission.
- 1897, Shanghai Mercury, Shanghai by Night and Day: Illustrated by 23 Reproductions from Photographs. Vol. I.
- The natives have gathered on the top of every grave mound near by and though many resent the riding over their fields without a so much as a 'By your leave' […]
- 1946, Konstantin Trenev, In a Cossack Village, and Other Stories
- He picked flowers without so much as a 'by your leave.'
- 1986, Judith A. Jance, Trial by Fury
- 'To a place you've broken into without so much as a by-your-leave, to say nothing of a search warrant?'
- 1897, Shanghai Mercury, Shanghai by Night and Day: Illustrated by 23 Reproductions from Photographs. Vol. I.
Usage notes
- Very commonly found in the expression without so much as by your leave.
Alternative forms
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