An abrupt and unceremonious dismissal.
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Examples for "congee"
Examples for "congee"
1Wheat becomes cream of wheat, oats become porridge, and rice becomes congee.
2Why not try porridge with traditional congee toppings, or congee with porridge toppings?
3So ended the affair, and the two sparks made their congee, and sneaked off.
4But you've got your congee, and my blessing on ye!'
5Yes, Wellingborough, you must; so I made one desperate congee, and darted through the door.
1I can recognize a conge, but consider me a persistent boor.
2Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her conge?
3I have caught you, red-handed, in the act of giving a millionnaire his conge.
4Henry established the supremacy of the State by letters patent, praemunire, and conge d'elire.
5The letters stand for the French phrase, "Pour prendre conge"-totake leave.
6Her high hereditary Majesty smiled on me when she gave Leicester conge and fiery quittance.
7Mr. Braybrooke must certainly have received his conge.
8The secular and Parliamentary origin of praemunire and conge d' elire were less notorious and more disagreeable subjects.
9These letters-standing for Pour prendre conge (To take leave)-arewritten in the lower left-hand corner of the visiting-card.
10The envoy (who was only a subaltern) received his conge, was blindfolded and led back to his boat.
11He will be much too discreet to send a conge card by post, knowing, as he does, the Warsaw post-office.
12We found the General had been wounded at Maubeuge, and was now absent on conge for the recovery of his health.
13It was not alone the fact of him having got his conge-nomedico was safe from THAT punch below the belt.
14On his recovery he obtained two months 'conge de convalescence', part of which he spent at Biarritz and part in Paris.
15Keep in with him, my dear sir, by all means, unless you desire (a) your conge, or (b) an extortionate bill for breakages and arrears.
16Shortly after, the king and queen gave us all our conges.