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sauve qui peut

/ sov ki pø /

noun

  1. a state of panic or disorder; rout
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of sauve qui peut1

literally: save (himself) who can
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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.

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Sauve qui peut; fear makes us bold.

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But the affair is tacked on to the end of the book and Turney hesitates to pursue its implications – that the morally redemptive story of Scott's death was stage-managed to obscure a competing narrative of sauve qui peut.

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There was no sauve qui peut, no throwing away of arms, as there would have been under similar desperate circumstances by European troops.

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It was a case of “Sauve qui peut!” with a vengeance: a disorderly and disgraceful scramble for the best places and an utter and total disregard for the wants of others.

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