as you please

1. However you wish, whatever you choose, as in We can have meat or fish tonight, as you please , or Go or don't go—do as you please . This idiom was introduced about 1500 and inverted what was then the usual order, which was “as it pleases you.”

2. Very, extremely, as in After winning the contract he was smug as you please , or She sat there in her new dress, as pretty as you please . [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

Texas fought in the wild and savage style of the prairie, nip-and-tuck, go-as-you-please; and he was wild with anger.

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So it isn't exactly a go-as-you-please place, and if you shut your eyes it still seems the wiggly hotel that we expected.

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Givin' advice, Bob-Cat, ain't any go-as-you-please proposition; it's got to be thought out.

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Ample allowance must be made for initiative, while realising that mere go-as-you-please methods are likely to lead to disaster.

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The operation with its various phases and diversions could not be carried out on the go-as-you-please principle.

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Related Words

• candidly
• openly
• voluntarily
• willingly