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take liberties with

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take liberties with someone or something and make free with someone or something
to freely use or abuse someone or something. You are overly familiar with me, Mr. Jones. One might think you were taking liberties with me. I don't like it when you make free with my lawn mower. You should at least ask when you want to borrow it.
See also: liberty, take

take liberties with something
to change something to suit your needs, esp. when writing a story or book The play takes liberties with history, but it brings to life the people from so long ago.
See also: liberty, take


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By Elizabeth's instructions, she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which a brother will not always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself.
A young whippersnapper had been able to take liberties with it.
He lay back in it, with his eyes half shut, looking, as he always did, curiously buttoned up in a neat grey suit and fenced against the exuberance of a foreign climate which might at any moment proceed to take liberties with him.
 
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