sauve qui peut
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of sauve qui peut
literally: save (himself) who can
Example Sentences
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If we've gotten to the point where inequality deepens, and crises with the rest of the world deepen, it becomes everyone for himself, sauve qui peut.
From Salon ● May 27, 2019
He heard it all, he saw the confusion, the first signs of sauve qui peut.
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The sailors, not being either so heavily caparisoned or so well drilled, were guilty of a sauve qui peut, and were picked up by other boats.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
It was sauve qui peut, and no standing aside for betters—no deference to age, and gray hairs ceased to be honored.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens
In the demoralisation which had ensued it had been undoubtedly sauve qui peut, only one of the party seeming to think of anyone else.
From Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn
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