at one's ease
English
Prepositional phrase
- Alternative form of at ease (“free of anxiety; not stressed or tense”).
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 5:
- The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.
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