free, white, and twenty-one

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free, white, and twenty-one (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, archaic, US) beholden to no one; master of one's own destiny.
    "I'm free, white, and twenty-one. I love to dance and I'm going to dance." - Ruby Keeler (Barbara Hemingway) in Dames (1934) [1]
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