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sauve qui peut

/ sov ki pø /

noun

  1. a state of panic or disorder; rout
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sauve qui peut1

literally: save (himself) who can
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Example Sentences

If we've gotten to the point where inequality deepens, and crises with the rest of the world deepen, it becomes everyone for himself, sauve qui peut.

From Salon

Sauve qui peut; fear makes us bold.

But the affair is tacked on to the end of the book and Turney hesitates to pursue its implications – that the morally redemptive story of Scott's death was stage-managed to obscure a competing narrative of sauve qui peut.

There was no sauve qui peut, no throwing away of arms, as there would have been under similar desperate circumstances by European troops.

It was a case of “Sauve qui peut!” with a vengeance: a disorderly and disgraceful scramble for the best places and an utter and total disregard for the wants of others.

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