FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY-FREE Definition & Meaning

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footloose and fancy-free

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Idioms and Phrases

Having no attachments, especially romantic ones, and free to do as one pleases. For example, When I was in my twenties, footloose and fancy-free, I would travel at the drop of a hat . Both of these words have long been used separately; their pairing dates only from the 1900s.

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He left in 2016, spending his days footloose and fancy-free at the Oakland Zoo.

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It鈥檚 like 鈥淟ord of the Flies鈥� but with sex, and Charlotte鈥檚 footloose and fancy-free ways don鈥檛 conform to the social norms.

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So I鈥檓 feeling, uh, footloose and fancy-free?

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Their geographical behaviour is limited and predictable, not footloose and fancy-free.

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Nearly six years ago, the then-36-year-old was footloose and fancy-free.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

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