please : Idioms & Phrases


go-as-you-please

  • adjective satellite not bound by rule or law or convention
    • bewildered by the old go-as-you-please liberty of alliterative rhythm"- George Saintsbury
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hard to please

  • adjective satellite (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"
    hard to please.
    • was very hard to please
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hard-to-please

  • adjective satellite (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"
    hard to please.
    • was very hard to please
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To be pleased inwith

  • to have complacency in; to take pleasure in.
Webster 1913

To be pleased to do a thing

  • to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it.
Webster 1913