Anything Goes
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Anything goes means there are no rules, restrictions, or limits—all behavior or options are permitted.
The phrase suggests a free-for-all atmosphere where normal standards don't apply: It's an anything-goes party.
Often describes creative or social environments without conventional boundaries: In that office, anything goes as long as you meet your deadlines.
- freewheelingActing without restraint
- devil may careRecklessly unconcerned attitude
- free for allDisorderly fight, unrestricted
- Broadway musicalsSung theatrical productions
- Cole PorterAmerican songwriter, Broadway musicals
no rules · Roaring Twenties · musical comedy · tap dance · swing · speakeasies · laughter · flapper culture · cabaret · unrestricted · jazz standards · big band · ocean liner · vaudeville · crooner · parody songs · syncopation · Harlem Renaissance
- musicalsWicked, Les Miserables, Cats, Chicago, Grease
- Cole PorterDe-Lovely, Kiss Me Kate
- Guns N' RosesParadise City, November Rain, Appetite for Destruction, Slash, Axl Rose
Anything Goeszero tolerance
Policy allowing no infractions
by the book · forbidden · prohibited · off-limits · no exceptions
Anything Goestragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
drama · Les Misérables · Miss Saigon · Sweeney Todd · Hamlet
Anything GoesVictorian morality
Rigid 1800s social standards
Puritanism · propriety · conformity · decorum · traditional values