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.