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See also: free-and-easy
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- free-and-easy (attributive only)
Adjective[edit]
free and easy (comparative more free and easy, superlative most free and easy)
- Casual, informal, relaxed, unrestrained.
- 1857, Bayard Taylor, chapter 20, in Northern Travel:
- The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths.
- 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 13, in The Winds of Chance:
- "That's more money than I've seen in a month," said she. "I wouldn't be so free and easy with it, if I were you."
- 2006 May 19, Ian Buruma, "Hard Luck for a Hard-Liner," New York Times (retrieved 19 June 2014):
- The Netherlands, proud of its multicultural tolerance, its hospitality to strangers, its free and easy social ways, used to be thought of as a soft touch for would-be immigrants.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Casual, informal
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Noun[edit]
free and easy (plural free and easies)
- (historical) A tavern offering informal entertainment from amateur and professional performers.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes
- "Then, perhaps," says I, taking the gloves out of my pocket, "you can tell me who cleaned this pair of gloves? It's a rum story," I says. "I was dining over at Lambeth, the other day, at a free-and-easy - quite promiscuous - with a public company - when some gentleman, he left these gloves behind him! […]
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes
Further reading[edit]
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