liberty Идиома

at liberty

free to speak or act, allowed to speak Are you at liberty to tell us who won? Can you tell us?

take the liberty to do doing

do sth． with ungranted and sometimes improper familiarity冒昧；冒失
Please excuse me for taking the liberty to write to you．恕我冒昧写信给你。
I took the liberty of borrowing your dictionary while you are absent．你不在时我冒昧借用了你的词典。

take the liberty to do/of doing

take the liberty to of doing

take the liberty of

Idiom(s): take the liberty of doing sth

Theme: BEHAVIOR

to assume the right to do something.
• Since I knew you were arriving late, I took the liberty of securing a hotel room for you.
• May I take the liberty of addressing you by your first name?

at liberty|liberty

adv. or adj. phr. Free to go somewhere or do something; not shut in or stopped. The police promised to set the man at liberty if he told the names of the other robbers. I am sorry, but I am not at liberty to come to your party.
Compare: AT LARGE¹.

liberty

liberty
see at liberty; take the liberty of.