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go-as-you-please en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Freestyle (of a race, especially a walking race); hence, (more generally) unconstrained by convention, loose, easy.

Forms

go-as-you-please en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A go-as-you-please race; hence, a free-for-all; laissez-faire, a relaxed atmosphere.
   • Here he was just over forty, and explaining […] how excellent was the backwardness of Essex and English go-as-you-please, and how through good temper it made in some mysterious way for all that was desirable. 1916, HG Wells, Mr Britling Sees it Through, London: Hogarth Press, published 1985, page 117:
   • ‘Well, that was far too much for me, and I went off on a go-as-you-please round the bloomin’ room.’ 1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 99: