Mon, 2 February

ANNUAL LEAVE From the Latin annualis (yearly) + levare (to lift, to raise, to relieve a burden). See also: exhale. See also: the bread basket with one roll remaining, which no one has taken because neither of you wants to be the one who ends this. See also: phone face-down. See also: the wine glass catching light like it has been waiting years to catch exactly this light. Not to be confused with: permission. Not to be confused with: a gift from anyone. Usage note: best encountered on a Monday, announced at a restaurant table to someone who will understand immediately what it means, which is not time off but rather the restoration of a self that had been filed incorrectly. Antonym: the Sunday feeling. Etymology disputed. Some scholars locate the origin in the body — specifically the shoulders, which drop approximately 4cm upon receipt of the news.