Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) free rein
WordNet
n. freedom to do as you see fit; "many have doubts about giving him a free hand to attack" [syn: blank check]
Wikipedia
Free Hand is the seventh album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant that was released in 1975. It was also the first album with their new label, Chrysalis Records in the UK. The album is noted for its high production values, and for a less dissonant, more accessible feel than their previous album The Power and the Glory. It was their highest-charting album in the US and the only one to reach the Top 50 on the Billboard Album Chart.
The 1990 CD version, released by the re-issue label One Way Records of Albany, New York, mistakenly used an alternate rough mix version of the album. This version revealed some different musical details. Alucard/ EMI re-released the CD in 2009, "from the original 1/4-inch tapes through 24bit 96k Hi-Resolution transfer."
The album was mixed quadraphonic by the band in 1976 but the 4-channel mix was not released until 2012 when it finally appeared in DVD-Audio format.
Usage examples of "free hand".
Alanna pulled the ember-stone from beneath her shirt with her free hand, thanking the Goddess for it.
With her free hand Alanna tugged on Moonlight's reins, leading the mare forward as she strained to see the prints.
Mara hissed, taking a long step forward and putting her lightsaber handle across his chest to stop him, her sleeve blaster now gripped in her free hand.
She gasped as the egg splattered into her eyes, throwing her free hand up to try to wipe away the semiliquid mass blinding her as Shada hit her safety-line feed release again and vaulted up onto the rooftop.
Then she grasped the blade with one hand, set the end on the point of her finger, and balanced it there while, with her now free hand, she pulled another object from behind her back.
Jofre's free hand slipped inside his girdle, his fingers closed on that source of warmth.
Clutching one of the mast ropes, Drustwn stood upon the rail, frantically waving his free hand.
She saw the large amount on the token and began to weep with happiness, wiping her eyes with her free hand.
His free hand held his rifle, swinging as it spewed carnage indiscriminately in his path.
With her free hand she took out a nefmakel and exposed its moist underside, used it to wipe clean the skin in Efen’.
I found that her free hand was in mine and I gave it a feeble squeeze and the smile broadened.
The robber barons and their Frankensteinian servants had been given a free hand too long.
Jefferson advised President Madison to offer Napoleon a free hand in Spanish America in return for the gift of Cuba to the United States.
Now the hostage-taking had erased that fear and given the Serbs a free hand in eastern Bosnia.
He offered his free hand and she took it for a moment with her cool fingers.