French leave

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /fɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈliːv/    美 /fɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈliv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A departure taken quietly and unnoticed, without asking for permission or informing anyone. dated,idiomatic,informal,uncountable
    — As for Ditton, after all his courting, and his compliment, he ſtole avvay an Iriſhman's bride, and took a French leave of me and his maſter; […]
  2. Desertion or temporary absence from duty or service without permission; absence without leave, AWOL. dated,euphemistic,idiomatic,informal,specifically
    — he may have felt a particular need to mitigate the responsibility of those who shirked their duty, for as he wrote that letter he had just returned from French leave himself.

词源

From French (adjective) + leave (noun), apparently from a French custom, already recorded in the 18th century, of leaving from receptions or other events without formally announcing one’s departure to the host or hostess. Compare Spanish irse a la francesa and Portuguese sair à francesa (“go in the French manner”) but also the otherwise ubiquitous attribution of this behaviour to the English as with French filer à l’anglaise (“leave in the English manner”), Italian filarsela all'inglese, Polish wyjść po angielsku, etc.
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