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carte blanche
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  • How you act is none of my concern, but you do not have carte blanche.†  (source)
  • His habitual absence emboldened the more brutal prison officials and gave them carte blanche to do whatever they wanted.†  (source)
  • With investigative carte blanche in all matters of national security, the OS had a long and potent reach.†  (source)
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  • He's been given carte blanche on this mission.†  (source)
  • He'd been given carte blanche, he said; the sun shone out of his bum as far as the top brass were concerned.†  (source)
  • "And this carte blanche," said d'Artagnan, "this carte blanche, does it remain in her hands?"†  (source)
  • I only ask you to give me carte blanche.†  (source)
  • To put our suspicions and true understanding of the matter into words—he had probably listened to Herr Settembrini for one purpose only: to be given carte blanche by his conscience, a license it had been unwilling to grant him at first.†  (source)
  • You have carte blanche.†  (source)
  • Both were of course too prudent to give up the fifteen hundred a year which was brought in by the second seat (at this period filled by Mr. 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.†  (source)
  • They've taken the Van Alstyne place at Roslyn, and I've got CARTE BLANCHE to bring my friends down there—the more the merrier.†  (source)
  • I give you carte blanche then; you can even be impertinent if you like; I shall let it pass and horribly spoil you.†  (source)
  • My grandfather has given me carte blanche for once, and I promise you the entertainment shall be worthy of the occasion.†  (source)
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