Phrase info

Anything goes

Meaning

anything goes

(idiomatic) There are no rules or restrictions.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. Imelda Marcos

To me, anything goes. But that's me. Paris Hilton

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes. Jason Blum

In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport. Lisa Snowdon

The motto of his [Robinson Jeffers's] work is "More! More!”-but as Tolstoy says, "A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion”; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: "A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.”. Randall Jarrell

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me. Ethel Merman

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