单词 | do-as-you-please |
释义 | do-as-you-pleaseadj. That permits or enables one to do as one pleases. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > completely unchecked unbridledc1374 untempered1377 bridleless?1406 unrepressed?a1425 untemperatea1425 savagea1450 unchecked1469 undaunted1513 uncontrolleda1535 reinless1566 unrestrained1578 ineffrenate1581 unbitteda1586 check-free1598 uncurbed1600 checkless1604 unbounded1608 uncontained?1611 dis'chained1615 ungoverneda1616 unstanched1621 unsneaped1647 incontrolled1650 controlless1657 irregulated1664 curbless1813 do-as-you-please1845 disenchaineda1849 1845 Astrologer 15 Feb. 5/2 I have for many years past resided in chambers, finding their solitary, do-as-you-please kind of accommodation in accordance with my own isolated and reserved mode of living. 1872 ‘Casca Llanna’ Love, Woman, Marriage (ed. 4) xiv. 201 The annihilation of marriage, and the substitution of do-as-you-please notions. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo ii. 24 The sense of do-as-you-please liberty. 1963 Listener 10 Jan. 73/2 The opportunities for enjoying the kind of do-as-you-please holiday that more and more Russians..now take for granted every year. 2009 V. Moore How to Drink i. 30 Finally, there is the do-as-you-please school of wine and food matching. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1845 |
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