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à la carte
Available to be purchased individually instead of bundled with other items. Most often describes items on a menu that are not part of a main dish. I wasn't very hungry, so I opted to buy a few side items à la carte instead of a full meal.
*carte blanche
Fig. freedom or permission to act as one wishes or thinks necessary. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) He's been given carte blanche with the reorganization of the workforce. The manager has been given no instructions about how to train the staff. He has carte blanche from the owner.
à la carte
if you eat à la carte, you choose each dish from a separate list instead of eating a fixed combination of dishes at a fixed price I don't know whether to have the set-menu or go à la carte.
give somebody carte blanche
(slightly formal) to let someone do whatever they want in a particular situation (usually + to do sth) She gave her interior decorator carte blanche to do up her apartment. (slightly formal)
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Heli (1) | | - | Biblical, Biblical Latin |
Sunday | | SUN-day | English |
Ilia | | eel-YAH (Russian) | Georgian, Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic |
Artemis | | ['a:timis] | |
MikoŁAj | | mee-KAW-way | Polish |
Petera | | - | Maori |