as you please
Idioms-
However you wish, whatever you choose, as in We can have meat or fish tonight, as you please , or Go or don't go—do as you please . This idiom was introduced about 1500 and inverted what was then the usual order, which was “as it pleases you.”
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Very, extremely, as in After winning the contract he was smug as you please , or She sat there in her new dress, as pretty as you please . [First half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
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“He’s right down there in the bottoms, sitting on a bur oak limb, big as you please.”
From Literature
He was just sitting there, as big as you please, with a sandwich in one paw, and an apple in the other, eating away and looking straight at me.
From Literature
A donor-advised fund is a charitable account where you deduct your contribution in the current tax year, but you can distribute the funds as you please.
From MarketWatch
This recipe allows you to celebrate as you please: The boundless bounty of the Canadian countryside, the return of "Top Chef," the joy of wild rice, the ingenuity of the rice cooker, the wonder of chilled grain salads — it's a win-win.
From Salon
"I guess it's up to them, but as long as it's not meaning women in relationships are having a hard time. Because it sends a message it's OK to use women as you please. I don't think that's a good thing," she said.
From BBC
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