as you please
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.”
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How to use as you please in a sentence
Texas fought in the wild and savage style of the prairie, nip-and-tuck, go-as-you-please; and he was wild with anger.
A Cadet's Honor | Upton SinclairSo 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.
Howards End | E. M. ForsterGivin' advice, Bob-Cat, ain't any go-as-you-please proposition; it's got to be thought out.
The Boy With the U. S. Foresters | Francis Rolt-WheelerAmple allowance must be made for initiative, while realising that mere go-as-you-please methods are likely to lead to disaster.
The Blocking of Zeebrugge | Alfred F. B. CarpenterThe operation with its various phases and diversions could not be carried out on the go-as-you-please principle.
The Blocking of Zeebrugge | Alfred F. B. Carpenter
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