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
Feeling intensified; Geneva and Queensberry conventions were forgotten; it became a go-as-you-please scramble; mud batteries filled the air with liquid dirt, and both sides used Gatling guns to fire off their libels.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William
Bert had not been long at Mr. Garrison's school before he discovered that it was conducted on what might fairly be described as "go-as-you-please" principles.
From Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia by Finnemore, Joseph
Drills were incessant, but scouts were few, and after the years of "go-as-you-please" work in Arizona the —th was getting rapidly back into soldierly shape.
From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles
“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)
