take the liberty
verbDefinitions
To act on one's own authority, without asking for permission.
- I took the liberty of adding your name to the list.
- —What about Dignam? says Bob Doran. Who's talking about ...? / —Dead! says Alf. He's no more dead than you are. / —Maybe so, says Joe. They took the liberty of burying him this morning anyhow.
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No curated loop yet for take the liberty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA