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carte blanche

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get/have carte blanche (slightly formal)
give someone carte blanche - to let someone do whatever they want in a particular situation. He had carte blanche when it came to choosing which actors he wanted to work with.
See also: Carte

give someone carte blanche (slightly formal)

to let someone do whatever they want in a particular situation. She gave her interior decorator carte blanche to do up her apartment. (usually + to do something)
See also: Carte, give


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I'll give you carte blanche as to what you serve, but it must be of the best.
Quadroon, with carte blanche on the Slave question); indeed the family estate was much embarrassed, and the income drawn from the borough was of great use to the house of Queen's Crawley.
de Treville, or whether he should only ask him to give him CARTE BLANCHE for some secret affair.
 
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