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Levandowski had done a lot of valuable stuff for google before, so they kind of gave him free reign even though he was known for not being easy to deal with.
by kayoone 9y ago
Levandowski had done a lot of valuable stuff for google before, so they kind of gave him free reign even though he was known for not being easy to deal with.
- waqf 9y agoFree rein*. The analogy is to horses, not to kingdoms, although I have heard that the one can be exchanged for the other.
- kayoone 9y agosorry and thanks for correcting, not a native speaker.
- andrewflnr 9y agoI've seen native speakers do worse. :) That one is especially tricky because the meanings of the two words are actually kind of related, to the extent that "free reign" makes a kind of sense with nearly the same meaning, despite not being the original idiom.