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Go-as-you-please   Listen
adjective
go-as-you-please  adj.  Not bound by rule or law or convention. "bewildered by the old go-as-you-please liberty of alliterative rhythm."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Go-as-you-please" Quotes from Famous Books



... green gits back in the trees, and bees Is a-buzzin' aroun' ag'in In that kind of a lazy go-as-you-please Old gait they bum roun' in; When the groun's all bald whare the hay-rick stood, And the crick's riz, and the breeze Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood, And the green gits back in the trees,— I like, as I say, in sich scenes as these, The time when the green ...
— Riley Farm-Rhymes • James Whitcomb Riley

... said, was a specially "go-as-you-please" occasion at the school. Masters, having called over their roll, disappeared into their own quarters and discreetly heard nothing. Dames, having received and unpacked the "night-bags," retired elsewhere to wrestle with the big luggage. The cooks, having passably satisfied ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed

... attended to, and all rules strictly observed. People may think a dog-fight is a go-as-you-please outbreak of lawlessness, but there are rules and regulations—simple, but effective. There were two umpires, a referee, a timekeeper, and two seconds for each dog. The stakes were said to be ten pounds a-side. After ...
— Three Elephant Power • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson



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