take liberties with someone
1take liberties with someone — take liberties (with (someone)) to be friendly with another person for your own benefit. The head of our department believed that everyone there would take liberties with her if she let them …
2take liberties with — take liberties (with (someone)) to be friendly with another person for your own benefit. The head of our department believed that everyone there would take liberties with her if she let them …
3take liberties with — 1) to do more than you have been given permission to do in a way that offends someone 2) formal to represent information in a way that is not exactly correct The government has taken liberties with the facts in order to support their case …
4take liberties — (with (someone)) to be friendly with another person for your own benefit. The head of our department believed that everyone there would take liberties with her if she let them …
5take liberties — 1. to change something, especially a piece of writing, in a way that people disagree with. Whoever wrote the screenplay for the film took great liberties with the original text of the novel. (usually + with) 2. to be too friendly to someone in a… …
6take liberties — ACT WITH FAMILIARITY, show disrespect, act with impropriety, act indecorously, be impudent, act with impertinence; take advantage, exploit. → liberty * * * 1) behave in an unduly familiar manner toward a person you ve taken too many liberties… …
7take liberties — act toward someone in too close or friendly a manner, use someone as one would a close friend or something of one s own She is taking liberties with her friend by always borrowing her car …
8walk all over someone — (informal) 1 be firm or they ll walk all over you: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, impose on, exploit, use, abuse, misuse, manipulate, take liberties with; inf …
9take for granted — verb take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof (Freq. 3) I assume his train was late • Syn: ↑assume, ↑presume • Derivationally related forms: ↑presumptive (for: ↑ …
10make free with — {v.} 1. To take or use (things) without asking. * /Bob makes free with his roommate s clothes./ * /A student should not make free with his teacher s first name./ 2. To act toward (someone) in a rude or impolite way. * /The girls don t like Ted… …
