单词 | anything goes |
释义 | > as lemmasanything (or everything) goes (a) intransitive. To be acceptable or allowed (regardless of how unusual or shocking). Originally and chiefly in anything (or everything) goes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [phrase] > everything permitted anything (or everything) goes1879 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. i. 17 Everything goes on the stage, since it's only the laugh we want on the brink of the action. 1891 Harper's Mag. Dec. 104/2 Any other night goes, but not this night. 1921 Ladies' Home Jrnl. June 80/3 One of the few real ‘movie’ fortunes has been made by a man who..has constantly exploited the vicious theory that ‘anything goes in fun’. 1960 Sunday Express 12 June 14/3 In the evening anything goes..from Baby Doll frills to matador pants and a billowing overskirt. 1973 K. Starr Amer. & Calif. Dream xiii. 440 Beneath the sense that all was possible, that anything went, lurked a baffled yearning for limits. 2006 Touch Dec. 23/1 Codes and conventions are out the window. It's a time where anything goes. < as lemmas |
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