There's a French play on words, here: to be "left" as in left over, left behind, but also to be Leftist, politically.
And those who don't listen risk being not left over but left behind.(Picture credit: The Leftover Monologues) .
Get him upstairs to the attic right away put leaves over him, stick him behind an heirloom!" With that, I was gone, leaving the three of them in puzzled panic.
Officially, of course, they are so over, left behind like the coach and horse and carrier's cart, hissing, clunking, smudging antitheses to our age of supposed clean efficiency.
Inheritance tax is charged at 40% on everything you leave behind over £312,000 (for the tax year 2008-09), including the value of your home.
"The bad thing there is that even though they had the camera, they still had to leave behind over £100 million because they didn't bring a big enough van.
Every year, there is collective handwringing over the mess left behind by summer festival-goers.
But those fired went off to teach at smaller, more tolerant colleges or Open Learning Centers, and many wives left behind got over the shock and took up the costumes, the sexual nonchalance of the girls who had tempted their men.
JOEL COHEN Staten Island It's About the Money, After All To the Sports Editor: Re "Left Behind, Starting Over," March 12: In the context of television revenue driving decisions about college sports, Susan Herbst, the University of Connecticut's president, is quoted saying that Connecticut "has never been in it for the money — we've been in it to win".
I thought of this this morning as I read Diane Ravitch's piece about the political reasons that we are stuck with No Child Left Behind hanging over our collective heads.
Imelda Marcos left behind over 1,200 pairs of shoes when her husband was ousted as president of the Philippines.
