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Idioms and Phrases

Take liberties with, treat very familiarly, as in That reporter makes free with the truth , or It's best not to make free with one's employees . This term was first recorded in 1714.
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“One could make free with others’ possessions then, because one would always be able to replace them, if necessary.â€

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Now don’t let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,——imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.

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Only two arrows came into the fort, one of which had the insolence to make free with my left leg.â€

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We could not do it in daylight, and methinks the Spaniards would not do us the grace to leave their boat here on the shore for us to make free with at night.

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Some day, I think, with a sneeze and a wink, Shocked wide-awake again, John Bull will make free with the Board-room key, Grope his way to the door, and then, Round the Board-screen peep at the ghosts that keep The seats of living men!

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