all right for you
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I remember driving along in my car and shouting out "it's all right for you, you got your son back".
From BBC
“It’s all right for you. You’re Portuguese. Among us, the son-in-law has to get the family’s permission—and arrange the roora. One day I saw Runako walking along the trail to our village. ‘What happened?’
From Literature
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The Roosevelt name wasn’t a big deal at boarding school, but at Harvard, Tweed was admonished for breaking the dress code: “Mr. Roosevelt, it’s all right for the other kids to do that, but it’s not all right for you.”
From Seattle Times
The Roosevelt name wasn’t a big deal at boarding school, but at Harvard Tweed was admonished for breaking the dress code: “Mr. Roosevelt, it’s all right for the other kids to do that, but it’s not all right for you.”
From Washington Post
If your house is on fire, it is all right for you to run out wearing your pajamas.
From Washington Post
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