free spirit

free spirit

Someone who does not conform to social norms or expectations. Maria is too much of a free spirit to be working in a stuffy corporate environment.
See also: free, spirit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • conform
  • conform to
  • conform to (something)
  • times change
  • guiding spirit
  • the times (they) are a-changin(g)
  • times are changing
  • breach
  • breach of decorum
  • breach of etiquette
References in periodicals archive
The inspiration for Free Spirit's color palette is derived from the world travels Lila Nikole has enjoyed and her wanderlust spirit.
Lila Nikole Collection Launches Free Spirit at SWIMMIAMI
Free Spirit follows on from what has been a particularly eventful end of the year for ESD, with the dance company recently shortlisted for 'Dance Personality of The Year' in the One Dance UK 2018 Awards.
Museum inspires dance duet
For more information about Free Spirit Siberian Rescue and its Sled Demo Team, visit www.huskyrescue.org.
Annual Winterfest returns to Vernon Hills Saturday
But Toto Wolff, the man who helped take Hamilton to Mercedes from McLaren, told ESPN: "Lewis is a free spirit. One of the key things for him is to be free and be able to decide what he wants to do.
No taming of the Lew
Distraught Brodie's mum Tulip Rippingale Free spirit Brodie Rippingale died in Falmouth
Busker died in freezing street; Fundraising appeal to bring Brodie back home
The song is about 'Freedom / Free Spirit' and I am positive that the audience will connect to it'
Singer songwriter Schaz Khan launches her single
Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE) said it is helping people with bad flying experiences to get rid of their hate by giving away up to one billion Free Spirit miles to those who feel wronged by an airline.
Spirit Airlines giving away 1 billion Free Spirit miles
I've always been a free spirit that's wandered around the place and done my own thing.
Ukip's Farage condemns protest threat
THE family of murdered Scots-based artist Valerie Graves paid tribute to her yesterday as "a free spirit who enjoyed her life".
Tribute to Midsomer victim Val
A while back I heard a quote by Gabrielle Roth that inspired me immensely to begin this journey with myself: "Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?"
Remembering my purpose
Haqiqi's screen creation received the Free Spirit Award of the Polish festival during the closing ceremony of the event held on October 21, 2012, press tv reported.
Iranian Film Receives Warsaw Festival's Free Spirit Award
At this same time, Nietzsche launched what would become a career-long, hostile analysis of metaphysics, morality and religion, and introduced the free spirit as an image of one who has escaped these traditional forms of romantic and idealistic illusion through science, even if he or she can never emerge fully from historically, physiologically and linguistically based illusion.
Jonathan Cohen: Science, Culture and Free Spirits: A Study of Nietzsche's
"Cool Down and Work Through Anger" is part of the Learning to Get Along series from Free Spirit Publishing.
Cool Down and Work Through Anger
I was a free spirit and like the free spirits of the past I had a secret destiny a task to do.
A Girls Guide to Modern European Philosophy
David, a 17-year-old Leicester High School senior and writer for the school's newspaper, The Arrow, has established enough credentials so far to become the male Massachusetts winner of the Al Neuharth Free Spirit Scholarship and will attend the Freedom Forum's Neuharth Journalism Conference in Washington, D.C., March 14-19.
Young journalist taps vein; Leicester teen earns scholarship, conference invite