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carte blanche
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Definition:unrestrained authority; unlimited budget (when referring to money)
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“Then, as to money?”
“You have carte blanche.”
“Absolutely?”
“I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom to have that photograph.”
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Your action was just what it should have been. I see that, but you ought not to keep it up. I only ask you to give me carte blanche.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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