| 单词 | to make free with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make free with Phrases P1. In similative phrases suggesting freedom from constraint in movement or action, as (as) free as (the) air, free as the wind, free as a bird, etc. ΚΠ 1603 T. Powell Vertues Due l. 153 As free as featherd Faulcons in the ayre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 502 Thou shalt be as free As mountaine windes. View more context for this quotation 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 166 As free as bird in ayre. 1682 M. Coppinger Poems 72 Disdaining those Bonds that the Predicants wear, My Soul is a Monarch as free as the Air. 1712 S. Cobb Callipædia ii. 15 Free as the Wind the Steeds of War unrein. 1776 H. H. Brackenridge Battle of Bunkers-Hill v. ii. 25 The judgment whether as base slaves, We serve these masters, or more nobly live, Free as the breeze. c1818 Sir R. Peel in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) I. iv. 116 A fortnight hence I shall be free as air. 1837 M. W. Shelley Falkner II. x. 193 By this desperate act, I believed that I had severed the cords that bound me to the vilest servitude. I..felt light as air, and free as a bird. 1901 Times 16 Jan. 10/5 He is as free as air now. 1973 J. Ludwig Woman her Age i. 52 You ain't with grandchildren and greatgrands to tie you down. We're free like birds. 2005 N.Y. Times 13 Mar. viii. 1/1 The newest icon in the sport of Alpine skiing grew up free as a bird. P2. to make free with. a. To be very familiar in one's conversation or dealings with (a person); to take liberties with; (in extended use) to treat without due respect. Also occasionally without with. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > treat impudently [verb (transitive)] insolence1649 to make free with1688 impertinence1756 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > make friends with [verb (transitive)] > adopt very familiar terms with to make free with1688 1688 A. Behn tr. B. Le B. de Fontenelle Hist. Oracles ii. vii. 224 I say nothing of the Waggishness of the Oracles, which they sometimes delivered... And sometimes the Consulter would make free with the God. 1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 556. ¶7 I was once like to have run through the Body for making a little too free with my Betters. 1728 N. Salmon in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 361 The Itinerary of Antoninus I find all authors making free with, condemning it for blunders, and altering figures. 1783 Hist. Miss Baltimores II. 79 If I can infuse into Carleton's ear, that Sedly and her ladyship make too free, he may..propose setting me as a watch over his wife's conduct. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. i. 4 He may with justice make free with our baggage. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. xxx. 275 I advise you not to make so free with your servants. 1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 92/2 Excuse my making so free, Mr. Matchin, but I once thought Sam was going to be a son-in-law of yours. 1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xxix. 209 Not that I ever thought she'd let them make free, oh, no. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 207 Ibn al-Mujawir says that for six months of the year the Suqutris were forced to play host to pirates, who would make free with the Suqutri girls. b. To take or make use of freely or without restraint. Cf. sense A. 18b. ΚΠ 1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 567. ¶4 This way of writing was first of all introduced by T—m Br—wn, of facetious Memory, who, after having gutted a Proper Name of all its intermediate Vowels, used to plant it in his Works, and make as free with it as he pleased. 1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 50 They were no sooner out of my sight than they began to make free with three different kinds [of fruit],..eating without any reserve. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxvii. 341 She did not fail to make free with raisins, or citron, or whatever came to hand, in a spirit of hospitality at which Polly seriously demurred. 1906 G. W. E. Russell Social Silhouettes xxviii. 195 If he is an old soldier, he..may make free with the Duke of Wellington's dry sherry and Dugald Stewart's still drier library. 1991 L. Sante Low Life 381 American speakers..asserted their claim on the language by adding extra parts to words and making free with prefixes and suffixes. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > approach boldly to make free with1792 1792 G. Vancouver Jrnl. 30 Apr. in Voy. Discov. to N. Pacific Ocean (1798) I. iv. 223 The weather prevented our making free with the shore. 1795 W. S. Smith Let. 4 Jan. in Ld. Russell Knight of Sword (1964) 46 She took no notice of us, probably supposing that we were of her own nation from our making so free with the coast. 1803 Ld. Nelson 10 Aug. in Dispatches & Lett. VIII. 155 You are..to approach Toulon with great caution and not make too free with the entrance of the harbour. 1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 226 You may make free with the..shore to within half a cable's length. P3. Business. In phrases indicating the extent of a vendor's responsibility for delivering goods to the buyer without extra charge, as free alongside ship, free on board, free on rail, etc.Each phrase is frequently found in abbreviated form, as F.A.S., F.O.B., F.O.R., etc.: see F n. Initialisms 3a. ΚΠ 1743 M. Decker Serious Considerations High Duties 25 This Gentleman had sold a Parcel of Tobacco free on board, as the Custom is. 1772 Edinb. Advertiser 9–12 June Sterling per chalder, free on board, for ready money only. 1873 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Freeman 6 Feb. American oysters..delivered free on rail. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. F.A.S., free alongside ship. Engages to deliver goods on the wharf without extra charge. 1930 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 31 July 22/2 Nutmegs unassorted..free alongside quay. 1958 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 7 661 Delivery is generally on f.o.b. terms or their equivalent (free on rail, free on truck, etc.). 1989 Amer. Econ. Rev. 79 209/1 The values reported are FAS (free alongside ship). 1993 B. Farthing Internat. Shipping (ed. 2) iii. 19 A requirement that..all goods imported are purchased on fob (free on board) terms. P4. colloquial. it's a free country: used to assert a person's rights as an individual, implying that a proposed or contemplated action is not illegal or forbidden, or more generally as a defence against (actual or expected) censure. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > without restraint [phrase] > one is free to do or think as one will thought is freea1393 it's a free country1813 1813 Scourge May 370 Should you like another man's wife, have her—it's a free country, and le roi le veut, is surely enough. 1847 E. Bennett Bandits of Osage i. i. 20/2 ‘Wal,’ remarked Bernard,..‘this ere's a free country, and every body's got a right to their own opinion any how.’ 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus iv. 51 Don't talk so ridiculous! I tell you I ain't yours—it's a free country, this is! 1939 N. Streatfeild Luke 244 Why stop with her if she was always nagging about her soul? That's what gets me. After all it's a free country. 1989 C. McIntyre in K. Harwood First Run i. 88 ‘It's for men, Mary. You shouldn't be looking at it at all.’ ‘It's a free country.’ 2010 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer 13 Hours viii. 66 ‘And if you wish to make personal calls, you will do it in the street…’ ‘It's a free country as far as I know.’ P5. to have a free hand (also to have one's hands free): to have the freedom to act completely at one's own discretion. Also with a free hand, with one's hands free; similarly to give a free hand. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > have freedom of action [verb (intransitive)] to have one's forth1362 to have waya1616 to have a free hand1838 to have one's hands free1838 1838 Times 5 Jan. 6/2 If..Lord Mulgrave had been sent out to Canada with his hands free, and with unfettered power to carry into effect his own wise and benevolent views. 1848 tr. C. F. Allen On Nationality & Lang. Duchy of Sleswick v. 43 A man, who ex gratia majorum had a free hand in almost every thing in the jurisdiction of Flensborg. 1855 Which: Right, or Left? xxviii. 462 But how much do you want? Don't say too much, to frighten me, nor yet too little, to restrict yourself from operating with a free hand! 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiv. 328 Harold thus had his hands free. 1890 J. Corbett Sir F. Drake ix. 117 He was given a free hand to act against the East and West India convoys. 1937 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 189 35/2 Giving appointing officers a free hand in naming provisionals. 1947 R. Chandler Let. 2 Oct. (1966) 116 It is ludicrous to suggest that any writer in Hollywood, however obstreperous, has a ‘free hand’ with a script. 1960 F. R. C. Bagley tr. B. Spuler Muslim World II. 67 The campaign continued until Tokhtamysh was put to flight at the battle of the Kandurcha river... Tīmūr then had his hands free. 1989 AJ 28 June 15/3 The council..had wisely given the community group a fairly free hand in converting the building. 2002 Independent 9 Apr. 8/2 The photographer..was recruited by Luciano Benetton..in 1983 with a free hand to sell the brand. P6. colloquial (originally U.S.). free, white, and (over) twenty-one and variants: that is an independent adult who can engage in any activity not prohibited by law; that is a free agent. ΚΠ 1875 Overland Monthly Oct. 383/1 I'm Jack Myers—free, white, and twenty-one. I can run alone, I can. I'm chief here. 1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning ii. xiv. 346 We're all of us free, white, twenty-one, and hairy-chested, and we know how to be kind to a pretty girl. 1945 T. Capote in Story May–June 36/2 Furthermore, Aunt Eunice, he is free, white and sixteen. 1952 D. L. Ames Murder, Maestro, Please xix. 138 She's free, white and—no, I guess she's not twenty-one. 1962 M. Carleton Dread Sunset (1963) v. 108 What could I do when she insisted?.. She was free, white and, heaven knows, well over twenty-one! 2000 Big Issue 4 Sept. 46/1 I am free, very white and severely over 21, and have many other views and attributes probably thought of as a bit rightist. P7. colloquial (originally U.S.). for free: for no charge, without payment; = sense C. 2. ΚΠ 1937 Washington Post 19 Mar. 15/7 I saw dozens of our sisters having their hair done, their faces reassembled and their nails brought to a high shine—all for free. 1942 in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 228/1 Railroads don't haul trash for free. 1957 G. Smith Friends 147 Back home we pay if we're ill... You don't expect to be ill for free. 1958 K. Amis I like it Here xi. 133 Bowen tried to buy some drinks, conscious of having been fed and made drunk for free. 2012 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 19 The new service..will allow library members to download their favourite audiobook for free from the library's website. < as lemmas |
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