shore leave

[shore leave] {n.}

Permission given to a man in the Navy to leave his ship and go where he wants for a certain length of time.

* /Jim went to visit New York when he was given three days' shore leave./

* /The ship did not dock long enough for the sailors to get shore leave./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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