French Leave
French Leave by Lady Duran December 24, 2008
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"Zut alors! Où sont les militaires allés?"
"Ils ont pris, comme les Anglais disent, <<French Leave>>, quand ils ont entendu les gun-shots!"
"Hmm, comme d'habitude!" (Shrug of gallic insouciance).
"Ils ont pris, comme les Anglais disent, <<French Leave>>, quand ils ont entendu les gun-shots!"
"Hmm, comme d'habitude!" (Shrug of gallic insouciance).
French leave by Dr Pinch September 15, 2004
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French Leave
Usually after a night of amazing sex, the woman leaves in the morning without a trace, save a thank you note.
Mike: What's wrong with Eddie?
Sally: Juliette pulled a French Leave on Eddie last night.
Mike: Oh snap!
Sally: Juliette pulled a French Leave on Eddie last night.
Mike: Oh snap!
French Leave by eddiesdguy December 13, 2012
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)