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anything goes
Idioms and Phrases
Everything is permitted, as in You're wearing sneakers to the office?—Why not? Anything goes these days . This idiom began life as everything goes , which appeared in George Meredith's novel The Egoist (1879). In America anything was the preferred word, which gained further currency with Cole Porter's use of the term as the title of his 1934 song and musical comedy, Anything Goes!Example Sentences
"So now, this growing year on the farm, if anything goes wrong and they don't make a profit, they don't have that SFI payment to keep them going."
He was also the first reporter on Radio 1's Newsbeat and his TV credits included The Village Show, Anything Goes and Folio, all for ITV.
And if nothing matters, then anything goes.
"Good luck, Marco. Now we know who to blame if anything goes wrong," Trump said, relishing one more bit of public shaming of a man who has done so much to flatter him.
But after that, anything goes.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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