loosey-goosey

loosey-goosey
/looh"see gooh"see/, adj. Slang.
relaxed; calm; unperturbed: Despite the pressure, he was loosey-goosey throughout the game.
[1965-70; rhyming compound (with -Y1) based on the idiom loose as a goose]

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