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
“Let’s have a sort of elastic program, a go-as-you-please route, governed each day by taking a vote as to how we’ll go from then on, subject always to approval of a majority of the voters.”
From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)
It's just a go-as-you-please, each one for himself.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
London seemed curiously profane and free-and-easy, not exactly shabby, but go-as-you-please, in aspect, as we came down five days ago.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
So without a word more, slack rein and go-as-you-please, we rode up Glen Trool.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
