‖ vogue la galère, int.
(vɔg la galɛr)
[Fr., lit. ‘let the galley be rowed’.]
Let's get on with it! Let's give it a go!
| [c 1525 Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 59 My fearful trust, ‘en vogant la Galère’.] 1744 Lady Hervey Let. 20 Oct. (1821) 86 As long as Mrs. Phipps is well, and Mr. Phipps happy, vogue la galère. 1822 Scott Peveril IV. xi. 258 ‘Vogue la Galere!’ he exclaimed, as the carriage went onward; ‘I have sailed through worse perils than this yet.’ 1850 Thackeray Pendennis II. vi. 63 Eh, vogue la galè re, I say. It's good sport, Warrington—not winning merely, but playing. 1909 L. Strachey Let. 13 Oct. in V. Woolf & L. Strachey: Letters (1956) 35 My health seems still to be something of a Mahomet's coffin. However, vogue la galère! a 1918 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) v. 594 We'll embark on a new course of education, and vogue la galère. |