anything goes
idiom
: anything is acceptable : there are no rules for behavior, dress, etc.
Today, in terms of clothing, almost anything goes, but they recall when the dress code was strictly formal.—
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If consumers put jackets into bins, nobody really knows where anything goes, whereas a business can collect it all and know what’s what.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The New Blood continuation series is titled Resurrection, so at this point, anything goes.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2025
In a moment of deep institutional distrust, Trump 2.0 has tried to make the case that anything goes and that previously unthinkable uses of executive power—such as, say, dismantling USAID—may be possible, if executed with enough shamelessness and bravado.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
But without that kind of involvement, people substitute superficial compliance for buy-in, and compliance is easily disrupted whenever anything goes wrong.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The New Blood continuation series is titled Resurrection, so at this point, anything goes.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2025
In a moment of deep institutional distrust, Trump 2.0 has tried to make the case that anything goes and that previously unthinkable uses of executive power—such as, say, dismantling USAID—may be possible, if executed with enough shamelessness and bravado.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
But without that kind of involvement, people substitute superficial compliance for buy-in, and compliance is easily disrupted whenever anything goes wrong.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Anything goes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anything%20goes. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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