English Dictionary

it's a free country

フレーズ

アメリカ英語

(US) Said when others seek to restrict one's behavior as a way of pointing out that an action is not illegal or forbidden.

日本語の意味

他人からの干渉や不要な制限に対して、「行動が法に触れていない」という点を強調するために使われる表現。 / 「自分の好きなことをして構わない」というニュアンスを含み、自由な判断や行動を許す意図を示す。

If you want to eat dessert before dinner, go ahead — it's a free country.

夕食の前にデザートを食べたいなら、どうぞ遠慮しないでください。ここは人が自由に振る舞える国です。

意味（1）

(US) Said when others seek to restrict one's behavior as a way of pointing out that an action is not illegal or forbidden.

No, indeed! and I shan't do sitch a thing, Benjamin. This treatment is a newity to me, and what I won't put up with. I have a hundred and fifty dollars at use, besides a bed and twenty sheep, to good; and I don't crave to live in a house where a body musn't call a young woman by her given name to her face. I will call her Betsy as much as I please ; it's a free country, and no one can stop me. I did intend to stop while summer, but I shall quit to-morrow morning and I will talk just as I please.