go-as-you-please
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Under the rules of "pedestrianism", colloquially known as "go-as-you-please" racing, competitors could walk or run.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 2014
That was a slap-bang, go-as-you-please trip, which didn’t—hullo! look there!”
From Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone by Stratemeyer, Edward
From early morning until late at night, much to the astonishment of the Americans, the English passengers—men, women, and children—pace the deck as if it were a go-as-you-please contest for immense prizes.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry
I think it will have to be a go-as-you-please contest.”
From The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike by Aldridge, Janet
Speaker put it, were there requisite number of Members present ready to sanction a regular first-class, A 1, whack-where-you-will, go-as-you-please, Irish row?
From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various
