beau gesten.
/bəʊ ˈʒɛst/ A display of magnanimity.
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1920 John o' London's Weekly 21 Feb. 562/1 The beau geste is less a physical than a mental and literary revelation.
1922 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. I think Germany can pay,..and Italy is too poor to make the beau geste of abandoning her claims.
1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xv. §3 He gave in... He was not going to quarrel with a beau geste.
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n.1920- to see which way the cat jumps
- to see with
- to see with eye
- to see with half an eye
- to see with one's own eyes
- to see with sight
- to see with the left eye
- to see —— from
- to see, etc into a brick wall
- to see, etc into a mud wall
- to see, etc into a stone wall
- to see, etc into a wall
- to see, etc through a brick wall
- to see, etc through a mud wall
- to see, etc through a stone wall
- to see, etc through a wall
- to see, or hear, the beat
- to see, or hear, the beat of
- to see, or show, the lions
- to see, put a paper to bed
- to see, put to bed
- to see, think fit
- to seed down
- to seed seed
- to seek a hare in a hen's nest