make free with

Verb

make free with (third-person singular simple present makes free with, present participle making free with, simple past and past participle made free with)

1. To take advantage of (someone); to treat (someone) with too much familiarity, take liberties with (someone or something)
   • Mr. Browne […] protested he had never made free with any woman but his wife, since his marriage.1817, The Trial Between Mark Browne, Esq. and Martin Jos. Blake, Esq. for Adultery, London: John Fairburn, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kC1DAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
   • Thin the masther called out Dinny Moran, an' dhragged him up to one o' the Dublin young ladies, an' bid Dinny be stout an' ax her out to dance wid him. So Dinny, you see, though he was ashamed to make so free wid the lady, still he was afeard not to do as the masther bid him; so, by my conscience...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 517
2. To exploit (something), use freely, use to one's own advantage
   • She was seated, as she observed, on her own brother's hearth, and had been Jane Featherstone five-and-twenty years before she had been Jane Waule, which entitled her to speak when her own brother's name had been made free with by those who had no right to it.1871, George Eliot, chapter 12, in Middlemarch
   • Oscar was […] reluctant to let a Poundamore make free with a Shillingsworth disgrace.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 113
3. To take (something) freely, help oneself to
   • […] I left my father's house unknown to any one, having made free with a coat and jacket of our gardener's which fitted me, by way of disguise: […]1767, Isaac Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village, Act I, Scene II, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZdZZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
   • Pat, and one of the Danes, who was as much addicted to tippling as himself, being unfortunately together upon watch, they made free with the spirits, and fell asleep through drunkenness.1821, Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy, The Percy Anecdotes, London: T.Boys, Ludgate Hill, page 125