live at her majesty's pleasure
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
45
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
4
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "'I treat patients who are living at Her Majesty's pleasure. They come to the hospital from Full Sutton prison and they are treated in the same way as anyone else.'"
- "I wrote to Charlie Bronson in prison, 'cos Charles sends me letters and amazing drawings; my mate Warwick, who is also banged up, and numerous others living at Her Majesty's pleasure"
- "The look he gives me makes me realise I've lost him. 'Why would my uncle steal from his own brother for fifteen years? I've never found the reason, but I've heard every single excuse, courtesy of my friends living at Her Majesty's Pleasure.'"
- "But the quest to make our jails a less pleasant place in which to live at Her Majesty’s pleasure must never translate into a lack of care, or a slipping of basic standards."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Colloquial