go-as-you-please
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Under the rules of "pedestrianism", colloquially known as "go-as-you-please" racing, competitors could walk or run.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 2014
But the hurdle race was not to be the harum-scarum, go-as-you-please contest that they had been in the habit of playing.
From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee
It was a leisurely, go-as-you-please affair, and, as a railroad, was considerable of a joke.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Penrose, Margaret
Tactics were forgotten in a go-as-you-please rush on to the ferryboat, through the streets of Louisville, and on to the cars for Nashville.
From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by McElroy, John
His dictum, if accepted unreservedly, would leave the door open to all kinds of "natural," haphazard and go-as-you-please methods of breathing, the "simplicity" of which consists in simply being incorrect.
From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.
