VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Blank cheque

Meaning:

that one is given an unlimited freedom of action.

Examples:

  • You want a blank cheque, or the life within me?
  • I'm giving you a blank cheque along with this bag.
  • In other words, you're asking for a blank cheque.
  • I am not prepared to sign a blank cheque.
  • But still we cannot give you a blank cheque.
  • In my mind that would amount to giving a blank cheque.
  • Your support is not a blank cheque.
  • Like a blank cheque, it has no value.
  • That doesn't yet give you a blank cheque.
  • So it is not a blank cheque.