take+liberties
11take liberties with — take liberties (with (someone)) to be friendly with another person for your own benefit. The head of our department believed that everyone there would take liberties with her if she let them …
12take liberties with something — take liberties with (something) to change something to suit your needs, esp. when writing a story or book. The play takes liberties with history, but it brings to life the people from so long ago …
13take liberties with — (something) to change something to suit your needs, esp. when writing a story or book. The play takes liberties with history, but it brings to life the people from so long ago …
14take liberties with — 1. To treat with undue freedom or familiarity, or indecently 2. To falsify • • • Main Entry: ↑liberty …
15take liberties — take freedom, act in a free manner …
16take liberties — act toward someone in too close or friendly a manner, use someone as one would a close friend or something of one s own She is taking liberties with her friend by always borrowing her car …
17take liberties with — I d appreciate it if you would refrain from taking liberties with me Syn: act with familiarity toward, show disrespect to/toward, act with impropriety with/toward, act indecorously with, be impudent with, act with impertinence to/toward; take… …
18take liberties with — 1) to do more than you have been given permission to do in a way that offends someone 2) formal to represent information in a way that is not exactly correct The government has taken liberties with the facts in order to support their case …
19take liberties — verb to behave disrespectfully, especially to make unwanted sexual advances …
20take liberties with — 1》 behave in an unduly familiar manner towards. 2》 treat without strict faithfulness to the facts or to an original. → liberty …
