write one's own ticket
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1.2
Verb
1.3
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English
Pronunciation
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Verb
write
one
's
own
ticket
(
idiomatic
)
To be
empowered
to
choose
whatever
job
,
financial
arrangement
, or
course of action
one desires.
1925
, "Offers of 15 to 1 on Walker Go Begging,"
New York Times
, 3 Nov., p. 2:
Mr. DeChadenedes said that any one wishing to back the Republican candidate could
write his own ticket
and name his own price.
2002
, Lee Siegel, "
Long Live the King
,"
Time
, 12 Aug.:
Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies would sell out their stock of Elvis' recordings, and that the King could
write his own ticket
when he returned, in both the recording and the film industries. Parker was right.
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