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be my guest

  1. Do as you wish. For example, May I drive your car?—Sure, be my guest, or Do you mind if I go to the play without you?—No, be my guest. This expression not only literally invites someone to behave as one's guest (using one's house, belongings, etc.) but also figuratively tells someone to feel free to act as he or she pleases. [Colloquial; c. 1950] Also see feel free.



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"If you want to complain about the performance, be my guest, crack on. We're delighted with the three points," the captain said.

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"If you want to complain about the performance, be my guest, crack on. We're delighted with the three points."

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Her high point came when she said, “If anybody in here wants to argue that the federal government isn’t fraudulent in some capacity, then be my guest…” Unasked and unanswered was how much fraudulence Trump is guilty of.

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If you think you can get to know a character by reading a Wikipedia page, be my guest.

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As Stacey Leasca writes in "Food & Wine," Garten hosted restaurateur Danny Meyer — founder of New York City's Union Square Hospitality Group — on her Food Network show "Be My Guest" and served him a brunch with a "Vanilla Coffee Shakerato."

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