not tied down
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the pilot would ensure the hospitality industry had "the conditions to grow" and was not "tied down by unnecessarily burdensome red tape".
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025
“We’re both driven to achieve the goals we’ve set out but you’re not tied down to how we’ve done it before or how different people have done it before,” Tuke said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
"There's no pictures left on the walls, there's no power, there's no fish tank left. Everything that's not tied down is broke."
From Fox News ● Dec. 1, 2018
Alibaba employees all choose in-house nicknames, and Mr. Zhang chose “Free and Noncooperative” because “he’s always chasing and seeking—to be free and not tied down to anything,” another person familiar with Mr. Zhang’s thinking said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2018
He sat with me nearly an hour, and he manifested, during the time the conversation was not tied down to business, a strong propensity to humour.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
