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it's a free country

it's a free country phrase: said when others seek to restrict one's behavior as a way of pointing out that an action is not illegal or forbidden.

Phrase

it's a free country

  1. Said when others seek to restrict one's behavior as a way of pointing out that an action is not illegal or forbidden.
    • "You can do what you want... it's a free country!"
    • "No, indeed! and I shan't do sitch a thing, Benjamin. This treatment is a newity to me, and what I won't put up with. I have a hundred and fifty dollars at use, besides a bed and twenty sheep, to good; and I don't crave to live in a house where a body musn't call a young woman by her given name to...1832, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale, pages 169–170

Questions about it's a free country

What does it's a free country mean?
It's a free country means said when others seek to restrict one's behavior as a way of pointing out that an action is not illegal or forbidden.
What part of speech is it's a free country?
It's a free country is a phrase.

Words near it's a free country in the dictionary

  1. it'll be all right on the night
  2. it's
  3. it's a date
  4. it's a deal
  5. it's a feature, not a bug
  6. it's a free country
  7. it's a joke, Joyce
  8. it's a jungle out there
  9. it's a long road that has no turning
  10. it's a man's world
  11. it's a matter of time

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