go-as-you-please

1. 1.

   not bound by rule or law or convention

   “bewildered by the old go-as-you-please liberty of alliterative rhythm”

   Similarunconventional

Questions about go-as-you-please

What does go-as-you-please mean?

go-as-you-please means "not bound by rule or law or convention".

How many syllables are in go-as-you-please?

go-as-you-please has 5 syllables and divides as go--a-s-y-ou--please under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is go-as-you-please a common word?

go-as-you-please is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.