0 If someone had/would as lief to do something, they would prefer to do something:
I'd as lief have him on my side as against me.
"I'd as lief not invite sister Deane this time," said Mrs Tulliver.
His clerk would not touch the cheese, saying he had as lief chew soap.
I agree that we need structural reform, but it will take longer to achieve that than to secure re- lief on contributions and an increase in receipts.
They put out of work a vast number of our own mea who are not desirous of continuing to receive out-of-work re- lief week by week.
Lief is courageous, very trustworthy, and withstands any and all temptations to surrender his quest.
Lief, born soon after the beginning of this dark reign, is told of the gems on his sixteenth birthday.
