no strings attached
Adjective
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Adjective
no strings attached (not comparable)
- (often, hyphenated) Characterized by an absence of conditions or obligations.
- 2009, Vivian Salama, "[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1880689,00.html Pakistan and China: A Fraying Friendship?]," Time, 19 Feb.:
- Since then, Beijing has often offered its support to Islamabad in the way of economic assistance, but also with no-strings-attached military aid.
- 2009, Vivian Salama, "[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1880689,00.html Pakistan and China: A Fraying Friendship?]," Time, 19 Feb.:
- quid-pro-quo
- German: bedingungslos, vollkommen unverbindlich
- Italian: senza se e senza ma
- Spanish: sin ataduras, sin compromiso
no strings attached (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Without conditions or obligations; without a catch.
- 1902, Jack London, "A Daughter of the Snows ↗", Chapter 21.
- Listen. We've kept it quiet, but she's in with the elect on French Hill. Her claim's prospected the richest of the outfit. Present indication half a million at least. In her own name, no strings attached. Couldn't she take that and go anywhere in the world and reinstate herself?
- For a friend, I'll help out for free, no strings attached.
- 1902, Jack London, "A Daughter of the Snows ↗", Chapter 21.
- German: ohne Bedingungen, ohne Haken und Ösen, ohne jegliche Verpflichtung, vollkommen unverbindlich
- Russian: без за́дней мы́сли
- Spanish: sin compromiso
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