have a free hand (to do something)
действовать по своему усмотрению, располагать полной свободой действий
I had a free hand to choose a textbook for the History class.
Другие идиомы:
- have one's eye on (someone or something)
- hand-me-down
- have seen better days
- lay one's hands on (someone or something)
- have the gift of the gab
- have one's heart set against (something)
- have it
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have one's cake and eat it too
- have had its day
- have a run of bad luck
- have cold feet
- have two strikes against one
- take the law into one's own hands
- you've got to hand it to (someone)