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go-as-you-please

adj

Definitions

  1. Freestyle (of a race, especially a walking race)

    Freestyle (of a race, especially a walking race); hence, (more generally) unconstrained by convention, loose, easy.

  2. A go-as-you-please race

    A go-as-you-please race; hence, a free-for-all; laissez-faire, a relaxed atmosphere.

    • Here he was just over forty, and explaining […] how excellent was the backwardness of Essex and English go-as-you-please, and how through good temper it made in some mysterious way for all that was desirable.

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