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Discover Ludwig"take French leave" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to mean leaving or departing without notice or permission. Example: After feeling underappreciated for months, John decided to take French leave from his job and never returned.
Idiom
French leave.
Absent without permission, to take French leave is to leave a gathering without saying goodbye or without permission.
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Take French fries.
Take French President François Hollande, for example.
basically paying you to take french classes.
Take French classes.
Take French language classes.
They've made a good show of putting their e-reader app on as many platforms as possible and their hardware was custom OEM, so maybe they're going to take the French leave from the hardware game?
It's not like Microsoft is going to be disappearing any time soon, especially with the success of the Windows 7 beta, but its death grip on the PC industry is being eroded on multiple fronts and it's a good exercise to imagine what it might be like if MS were to take the French leave.
Antoine Audouard shouldn't take French-bashing personally.
In 1978, he took French citizenship.
FRENCH LEAVE By Anna Gavalda Translated by Alison Anderson.
The French leave things a little mysterious".
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