anything goes

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anything goes

  1. (idiomatic) There are no rules or restrictions.
    • 1934, Cole Porter, Anything Goes:
      In olden days a glimpse of stocking
      Was looked on as something shocking
      But now, Heaven knows,
      Anything goes.
    • 1987, Guns N' Roses, Anything Goes:
      My way, your way, anything goes tonight!
    • 2004, Charles Silverstein, Felice Picano, The Joy of Gay Sex: Fully Revised and Expanded Third Edition, page 228:
      […] fucking and sucking by providing an anything-goes atmosphere reminiscent of the wildest days of the baths.

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