by your leave

短语

词形变化

by your leaves 复数

别名

by-your-leave

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Request for permission.

    1897, Shanghai Mercury, Shanghai by Night and Day: Illustrated by 23 Reproductions from Photographs. Vol. I. The natives have gathered on the top of every grave mound near by and though many resent the riding over their fields without a so much as a 'By your leave' […]

    1946, Konstantin Trenev, In a Cossack Village, and Other Stories He picked flowers without so much as a 'by your leave.'

    1986, Judith A. Jance, Trial by Fury 'To a place you've broken into without so much as a by-your-leave, to say nothing of a search warrant?'

phr.
  1. 1.

    With your permission.