Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
save .
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Examples
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And the teensy pool of eager, willing, and solvent patrons makes for what you might call a sauve qui peut world.
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Don't miss another dozen photos of Italy, coming up in a future edition of my photo blog, Cinéma Vérité. sauve qui peut (sohv kee peuh) expression
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Yet Europe has surely done more in the past 18 months to bring its public-debt problems under control than has the U.S. It may never have done enough, but it has been more than was imaginable as recently as 2008, when the reflex reaction to the financial crisis was a nationally oriented sauve qui peut.
Europe Must Produce Fudge of Much Higher Quality Geoffrey T. Smith 2011
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The end result is a “sauve qui peut” mentality. aimai
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Clusterf**K Continues 2010
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My wife had to tape my eye shut and put sauve in my eye to not dry out at night.
Former senator Norm Coleman diagnosed with Bell's palsy 2009
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Help translate the above quote ... or share any additional notes for today's expression "sauve qui peut" (literally "save who can").
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It turns out there are common ideals of distributive justice — or perhaps enlightened self-interest following a destructive war — that exist outside the sauve-qui-peut imagination of Liberal/libertarians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most 2010
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Monday, August 24, 2009 at 06: 00 PM sauve qui peut!
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PS - the sentence with sauve qui peut is difficult!
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Le sauve-qui-peut des investisseurs mettait fin à une longue période de hausse des cours boursiers qui avait notamment porté le
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