go-as-you-please
Example Sentences
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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
He gave us, in fact, to understand that German thoroughness and forethought have gripped the old go-as-you-please Turk and are making him march to the Parade-schritt.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
It was a leisurely, go-as-you-please affair, and, as a railroad, was considerable of a joke.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose
Texas fought in the wild and savage style of the prairie, nip-and-tuck, go-as-you-please; and he was wild with anger.
From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair
The first may be subdivided into the fashionable places between Deauville and the Belgian frontier and the go-as-you-please resorts of Brittany.
From France by Gordon Cochrane Home
