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as you like

as you like interjection: expressing unenthusiastic consent.

Interjection

  1. Expressing unenthusiastic consent.
    • - So, we'll buy the green one, then?
      - As you like.
    • "Oh," he said, "so you're Conrad, are you? It strikes me the thickness of my skull was lucky for you too. When I look at you I feel it's almost a pity I've enabled you to cheat the hangman."
      The man snarled, and the bearded man said quietly:
      "He would have run no risk of that."
      "Just as you like,"...1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary
    Synonyms:
    as you wish

Prepositional phrase

  1. (colloquial) To any extent or degree.
    • So he walks in, calm as you like, and demands all the money from the till.
    • But the weird thing was, there was no working-out at all — just the sum, with that brackety thing with the line on top, and the answer written up above it, tidy as you like.2012, V M Jones, Beyond the Shroud
    Synonyms:
    as you please

as you like meaning in Arabic

as you like in Arabic

unenthusiastic consent
كَمَا تُرِيدُ kamā turīdu

Synonyms of as you like

Questions about as you like

What does as you like mean?
As you like means expressing unenthusiastic consent.
What is as you like in Arabic?
As you like in Arabic is كَمَا تُرِيدُ (kamā turīdu). See As you like meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is as you like?
As you like can be an interjection or a prepositional phrase.

Words near as you like in the dictionary

  1. as yet unknown
  2. as you do
  3. as you go
  4. as you have brewed, so you must drink
  5. as you know
  6. as you like
  7. as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
  8. as you please
  9. as you sow, so shall you reap
  10. as you were
  11. as you wish

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