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leave word
Idioms and Phrases
Leave a message, as in Please leave word at the desk when you check out , or I left word abut my plans with the secretary; didn't she tell you? This expression employs word in the sense of “information,” a usage dating from the 10th century.Example Sentences
"I suppose I must go down to the station and leave word for him there," said Mr Blake.
We'll stop at your house on our way back, and leave word with your mother—incidentally we can learn if any one has called.
He would call at Barnard's Hotel Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, when if not agreeable please leave word.
As if father couldn't see his way to do it in his lifetime, but did this to leave word to us that we were to do something.
Very extraordinary to go out at this time of day, and not even to leave word where you were to be found.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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