"without so much as a by your leave" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Outlaw of Torn:",
          "text": "\"What now,\" he said, \"have the King's men respect neither for piety nor age that they burst in upon the seclusion of a holy man without so much as a 'by your leave' ?\"",
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          "text": "You just slam the fucking door without so much as a by your leave.",
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          "ref": "2014, Ashvajit Dharmachari, In the Footstep of the Buddha, page 212:",
          "text": "By lunchtime the Professor had had enough, and he left the retreat, his Brahminical thread and all, without so much as a by your leave.",
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          "ref": "2021, Charles Edward Stowe, The Life Of Harriet Beecher Stowe:",
          "text": "I had a new sympathy for babies, poor little things, who are rocked hours at a time without so much as a “by your leave” in the case.",
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        "Omitting the social niceties, especially that of asking permission."
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          "word": "without so much as a by-your-leave"
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          "word": "omine lupineen"
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          "word": "sans autre forme de procès"
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          "word": "nie prosząc o pozwolenie"
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