| 释义 |
Free and easy
Translationsfree and easy
free and easy1. Calm and relaxed. Once exams are over, I'll finally be free and easy once again!2. Irresponsible. If you're free and easy with your savings, you'll be broke again in no time.See also: and, easy, freefree and easycasual. John is so free and easy. How can anyone be so relaxed? Now, take it easy. Just act free and easy. No one will know you're nervous.See also: and, easy, freefree and easy1. Casual, relaxed, as in His style of writing is free and easy. In the 1930s and 1940s this phrase gained currency as part of a slogan for a brand of cigarettes, which were said to be "free and easy" to inhale. [c. 1700] 2. Careless, sloppy, morally lax, as in This administration was free and easy with the taxpayers' money, or These girls hate to be considered free and easy. [First half of 1900s] See also: and, easy, freefree and easy informal and relaxed.See also: and, easy, freefree and ˈeasy informal and relaxed: They had to settle down. Life wasn’t free and easy any more.See also: and, easy, freefree and easyWithout ceremony; casual; informal. This expression, an older equivalent of today’s slangy hanging loose, acquired a new meaning as a noun in the nineteenth century, when for a time a “free-and-easy” was a saloon or a house of ill fame. “He would have a song about it, and sing it at the ‘free and easies,’” wrote J. C. Neal in his Charcoal Sketches (1837). This meaning did not survive, however, while the eighteenth-century sense of casualness did.See also: and, easy, free |