Back Sich auf französisch empfehlen German De rattentaxi nemen Dutch فرانسیسی رخصت PNB Уйти по-английски Russian Піти по-англійськи Ukrainian فرانسیسی رخصت UR Fransuzcha ketish UZ 法式離場 Chinese
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A French leave, sometimes French exit, Irish goodbye or Irish exit, is a departure from a location or event without informing others or without seeking approval.[1] Examples include relatively innocuous acts such as leaving a party without bidding farewell in order to avoid disturbing or upsetting the host, or more problematic acts such as a soldier leaving his post without authorization.[2]
The first attestation of the phrase in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1751, a time when the English and French cultures were heavily interlinked.
In French, the equivalent phrase is filer à l'anglaise ("to leave English style")[3] and seems to date from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.[4]
- ^ Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Millennium Edition; London: Cassell, 1999)
- ^ Parkinson, Judy (2000). From Hue & Cry to Humble Pie. Michael O'Mara Books. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7607-3581-7.
- ^ Anu Garg's A.Word.A.Day, September 8, 2008. http://wordsmith.org/words/chinese_puzzle.html
- ^ "Filer à l'anglaise". Francparler. Retrieved September 7, 2012.