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take liberties with

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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.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
A young whippersnapper had been able to take liberties with it.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
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.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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