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free rein | |||
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it's a free country (said when justifying a course of action. NOED. (informal) used as a reply when sb suggests that you should not do something • It's a free country; I'll say what I like! OALD. Said when asserting that a course of action is not illegal or forbidden, often in justification of it. EXAMPLE SENTENCES Yes, it's a free country, and yes, everyone can say pretty much whatever they want.OD Alexander Demidov) | |||
be my guest (в контексте, напр., "if you insist on losing all your money, be my guest. I'm not stopping you." Рина Грант) | |||
it's up to you (just as you please, used when someone acts in his own (unusual or foolish) way and may intend to ignore any advice of others); each to his taste; to each his own; a word to the wise is enough; a word to the wise is sufficient; good counsel does no harm; counsel breaks not the head; we may give advice but we cannot give conduct; forewarned is forearmed; you cannot hear on that ear; let him take a spring tune on his own fiddle, and dance to it when he has done; I am sorry for you but I cannot weep; as the fool thinks, so the bell clinks; freedom is for the free |
вольная воля : 17 phrases in 3 subjects |
General | 1 |
Makarov | 1 |
Proverb | 15 |