by-your-leave

Definitions

Examples

• “We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

• Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.

• But outside of a few European countries and Quebec, this leave is usually two weeks or less and usually unpaid.

• Certainly paid paternity leave is part of it (and in the U.S., we need paid maternity and paternity leave).

• And then when businesses leave the state, they want to know why.

• They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.

• All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."

• As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.

• Now for the tempering of the Gudgeons, I leave it to the judgment of the Workman; but a word or two of the polishing of it.

• We can do as we like with Hindu and Mussalman so long as we leave their respective religions untouched.