at one's ease
English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- 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.