Brewer's: Le Roi le Veut

(French, The king wills it.) The form of royal assent made by the clerk of parliament to bills submitted to the Crown. The dissent is expressed by Le roi s'avisera (the king will give it his consideration).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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