free and easy
free and easy
1. Calm and relaxed. Once exams are over, I'll finally be free and easy once again!
2. Irresponsible. If you're free and easy with your savings, you'll be broke again in no time.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
free and easy
casual. John is so free and easy. How can anyone be so relaxed? Now, take it easy. Just act free and easy. No one will know you're nervous.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
free and easy
1. Casual, relaxed, as in His style of writing is free and easy. In the 1930s and 1940s this phrase gained currency as part of a slogan for a brand of cigarettes, which were said to be "free and easy" to inhale. [c. 1700]
2. Careless, sloppy, morally lax, as in This administration was free and easy with the taxpayers' money, or These girls hate to be considered free and easy. [First half of 1900s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
free and easy
informal and relaxed.See also: and, easy, free
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
free and ˈeasy
informal and relaxed: They had to settle down. Life wasn’t free and easy any more.See also: and, easy, free
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
free and easy
Without ceremony; casual; informal. This expression, an older equivalent of today’s slangy hanging loose, acquired a new meaning as a noun in the nineteenth century, when for a time a “free-and-easy” was a saloon or a house of ill fame. “He would have a song about it, and sing it at the ‘free and easies,’” wrote J. C. Neal in his Charcoal Sketches (1837). This meaning did not survive, however, while the eighteenth-century sense of casualness did.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- as easy as taking candy from a baby
- as easy as shooting fish in a barrel
- easy/gently/slowly does it
- easy does it
- easy street, on
- easy peasy
- be (as) easy as one-two-three
- take it easy
- take it/things easy
- easy game