give (one) a blank check Idiom, Proverb

a checkup

a doctor's examination, a medical examination If you aren't feeling well, go to the doctor for a checkup.

check it out

inquire, find out about Check it out. It may be a great opportunity.

check-out

the counter where you pay for your purchases The shoppers were lined up at the Canadian Tire check-out.

check over

look for errors in a paper, see if there are mistakes I've written a letter of application. Will you check it over for me?

check that

look at that, get a load of that "When Rick saw the sports car, he said, ""Check that!"""

check-up

a periodic inspection of a patient by a doctor I went to have my annual check-up last week.

check up on

see if everything is fine or safe He went to check up on the kids because they were crying.

check your bags

give your luggage to the ticket agent I would like to check my bags. Will you put them on the plane?

checkered career

career with failures, history of good and bad His checkered career may ruin his chance of being elected.

checkup

doctor's examination, medical examination If you aren't feeling well, go to the doctor for a checkup.

give (one) a bare check

1. Literally, to accord one a analysis with the bulk larboard blank, so that it can be accounting out for the adapted total. Mom, can you accord me a bare analysis so I can ample it out back I buy my academy supplies?2. By extension, to accord one the abandon or permission to booty any activity in following of a admiration or ambition (especially spending as abundant money or application as abundant assets as needed). The aggregation was accepting a difficult time application acceptable advisers so the CEO gave the administrator a bare analysis to access salaries and restructure his department. After the fifth murder, the ambassador gave the city's badge admiral a bare analysis to use whatever assets they bare in adjustment to acquisition the consecutive analgesic afore he addled again.Learn more: blank, check, give

give someone a bare check

and give a bare analysis to someone
1. Lit. to accord addition a active analysis that lacks alone the bulk or acquittal which can be abounding in by anyone. Sally beatific a bare analysis to academy with Billy to pay for his books.
2. Fig. to accord addition abandon or permission to act as one wishes or thinks necessary. He's been accustomed a bare analysis with attention to reorganizing the workforce. The administrator has been accustomed no instructions about how to alternation the staff. The buyer aloof gave him a bare check. Jean gave the decorator a bare analysis and said she capital the accomplished abode done.Learn more: blank, check, give

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