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Free rein*. The analogy is to horses, not to kingdoms, although I have heard that the one can be exchanged for the other.
by waqf 9y ago
Free 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.