free and clearin a sentence
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My grandmother owns her home free and clear.
free and clear = ownership of property that has no debt attached to it
- Looks like it'll be 'bout eight hundr'd dollars total—put the land free and clear. (source)
- Cash, free and clear —!† (source)
- They're used to owning a house, paid free and clear.† (source)
- In your mind, Mr. Jurgensen, did the deed read free and clear?† (source)
- Right now he's getting ready to go into the office to do some work so that he'll be free and clear by the time we go.† (source)
- We'd just been talking, about what I couldn't even remember, and then Kirsten's boyfriend Brian— with the class over, they were now free and clear to make their relationship public-was telling us to look here, and the shutter snapped.† (source)
- No light switch, no water running free and clear after a turn of a tap handle.† (source)
- Then, all of a sudden you would see a single red jersey squirt out of the pile, free and clear.† (source)
- I lived in the breathtaking state of Florida, I spoiled myself by purchasing a monstrous motorcycle I owned free and clear, went through intensive prequalifications, and officially applied for a slot as an elite air crew member.† (source)
- I thought with those two Erasers taking dirt naps, we'd be free and clear, at least for a while.† (source)
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- I need fifteen million dollars to complete the Rio Norte Line, I have obtained seven million against the Taggart stock I own free and clear.† (source)
- He don't even own this place free and clear.† (source)
- There might be an occasional meager handhold, but I'd be swinging free and clear, hundreds of feet above the rocks below, and it was a prospect I had no taste for.† (source)
- It was bigger than just one guy and one night ' and out you go, free and clear.† (source)
- Free and clear.† (source)
- If I went to college--at least this way, with him and Cora backing me--I'd be in debt, both literally and figuratively, at the one time when all I wanted was to be free and clear, owing no one anything at all.† (source)
- She now owned the land free and clear.† (source)
- "Sorry," I said, rolling down my window and making a big show of holding them outside, my head stuck sideways to eat free and clear of the confines of the car.† (source)
- Sure, being free and clear had been just what I'd wanted, so recently that it should have been easy to agree with it.† (source)
- And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear.† (source)
- Free and clear.† (source)
- Free and clear.† (source)
- The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study.† (source)
- On applying to the assessors, I am surprised to learn that they cannot at once name a dozen in the town who own their farms free and clear.† (source)
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Come,
take bronze tools, cut your lengthy timbers,
make them into a broad-beamed raft
and top it off with a half-deck high enough
to sweep you free and clear on the misty seas…
And I myself will stock her with food and water,
ruddy wine to your taste—all to stave off hunger—
give you clothing, send you a stiff following wind
so you can reach your native country all unharmed.
If only the gods are willing.† (source)
- First time in thirty-five years we were just about free and clear.† (source)
- ] We're free and clear.† (source)
- 3 Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee, While at thy liquid prelude, glad, serene, The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw, A holy calm descends like dew upon me, I walk in cool refreshing night the walks of Paradise, I scent the grass, the moist air and the roses; Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me, Floating and basking upon heaven's lake.† (source)
- My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows of ignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of chivalry cast over it.† (source)
- You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me; my remembrance is very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man.† (source)
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