Idiom
wide open
Meaning
Having no laws or law enforcement.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That town is wide open — nobody follows the rules.”
“In the remote border region, the area was wide open, with no police presence for miles around.”
“The frontier settlement remained wide open throughout the gold rush, its dusty streets governed by neither sheriff nor judge.”
Examples
simple
“That town is wide open — nobody follows the rules.”
contextual
“In the remote border region, the area was wide open, with no police presence for miles around.”
complex
“The frontier settlement remained wide open throughout the gold rush, its dusty streets governed by neither sheriff nor judge.”
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