give carte blanche

give somebody carte blanche

(slightly formal)

to let someone do whatever they want in a particular situation (usually + to do sth) She gave her interior decorator carte blanche to do up her apartment. (slightly formal)

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ivica	-	Croatian, Serbian
StefÁN	-	Icelandic
Xiuying	-	Chinese
Susila	soo-SEE-lah	Indonesian
Fredrika	fred-REE-kah (Swedish), FRED-ree-kah (Finnish)	Swedish, Finnish
Klaus	KLOWS (German, Finnish)	German, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish