making 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
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
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