by your leave

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) With your permission.

Noun

 * 1) Request for permission.
 * 2) * 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'
 * 1) * 1946, Konstantin Trenev, In a Cossack Village, and Other Stories
 * He picked flowers without so much as a 'by your leave.'
 * 1) * 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?'
 * 'To a place you've broken into without so much as a by-your-leave, to say nothing of a search warrant?'

Usage notes

 * Very commonly found in the expression.