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
There were no more go-as-you-please dinners, and those of the past were remembered with fondness and referred to with respect.
From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Paine, Albert Bigelow
Speaker put it, were there requisite number of Members present ready to sanction a regular first-class, A 1, whack-where-you-will, go-as-you-please, Irish row?
From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various
It was largely a go-as-you-please hunt, for, as mentioned before, the army was not yet sworn in, and every man felt that he could do about as he wished.
From For the Liberty of Texas by Meynelle, Louis
The first may be subdivided into the fashionable places between Deauville and the Belgian frontier and the go-as-you-please resorts of Brittany.
From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane
