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Carte Blanche (French)

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A blank cheque signed by the giver, but left to be filled in by the receiver, with a sum of money drawn on the bank-account of the giver. Power to act at discretion in an affair placed under your charge.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Carry Coals
Carry Everything before One (To)
Carry Fire in one Hand and Water in the other (To)
Carry One’s Point (To)
Carry Out (To)
Carry out one’s Bat (To)
Carry Swords!
Carry the Day (To)
Carry Weight (To)
Cart before the Horse
Carte Blanche (French)
Carte de Visite (French)
Cartesian Philosophy
Carthage of the North
Carthagena
Carthaginem esse Delendam (censeo)
Carthaginian Faith
Carthusians
Cartoons
Cartridge Paper
Caryates or Caryatids

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Carte-blanche