" It would be a misfortune if he
should take the stage with him. Say "quit the stage."
"Henry has quit smoking." Here left off or stopped would be better.
"The President gave me lief to speak with him." Say "gave me leave."
Let it alone and let me be are preferable to leave it alone and leave
me be.
A 1
"I have just read an A 1 article on the currency, question in the last
issue of the North American Review!" This is an expression from the
vocabulary of business converted into the slang of the street.
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Luck
Luck, like behavior, may be either good or bad. "The carpenter has met
with luck; he fell and broke his leg." "The manager has met with luck;
his salary has been doubled." The adjective lucky and the adverb
luckily are used only in a favorable sense.
Make way with
This expression is often incorrectly used for make away with; as, "The
Judge gave the boot-blacks a Christmas dinner, and the begrimed
urchins quickly made way with the turkey and cranberry sauce." Say
"made away with," etc.
To make way is to make room, to provide a way, to dispatch.
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