Definition of Go-as-you-please

1. Adjective. Not bound by rule or law or convention. "Bewildered by the old go-as-you-please liberty of alliterative rhythm"

Similar to: Unconventional

Lexicographical Neighbors of Go-as-you-please

gnotobiotic
gnotobiotically
gnotobiotics
gnotobiots
gnow
gnows
gnu goat
gnurled
gnus
go-ahead
go-ahead run
go-ahead runs
go-around
go-as-you-please (current term)
go-away-bird
go-away-birds
go-away bird
go-away birds
go-between
go-betweens
go-by
go-bys
go-cart
go-carts
go-devil
go-faster stripe
go-faster stripes
go-getter

Literary usage of Go-as-you-please

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"We ask whether everything that is left to private enterprise can properly b« said to be left to a " go-as-you-please system." If so, all we can say is, ..."

2. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... and dramatic societies— Business control and discipline puts an end to the old style of " go-as-you-please "—A few tales about unprofessional players. ..."

3. Rudyard Kipling with the British Fleet by Rudyard Kipling (1915)
"We'll duck and we'll dive underneath the North Seas, Until we strike something that doesn't expect us, From here to Cuxhaven it's go-as-you- please. ..."

4. A Second New Book of Patience Games by Ernest Bergholt (1917)
"X go-as-you-please (WITH Two WHIST PACKS) DEAL out eight cards, face upwards, in a row. Put out any aces and 2's that there may be among them (but not more ..."

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