without so much as a by-your-leave



without so much as a by-your-leave

  (old-fashioned)
if you say that someone does something without so much as a by-your-leave, you mean you are angry because they did not ask your permission to do it That's twice now he's just marched in here without so much as a by-your-leave and picked a book off my shelf!
See also: much, without

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Celestinothe-le-STEE-no (Spanish), se-le-STEE-no (Latin American Spanish), che-le-STEE-no (Italian)Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Tahir-Arabic
Karla['ka:lə]
Asim (1)-Arabic
Barton['ba:tən]
Arun-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi