with reckless abandon

idiom

: in a very wild and reckless way

She decided with reckless abandon to quit her job and move to Tahiti.

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For many of us, though, there’s an achievable middle ground between using no salt and pouring it into our food with reckless abandon. —Becky Krystal, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023

But suddenly their opponent is swinging away with reckless abandon, grazing the lines with topspin winners. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2022

After more than a year of lockdown, quarantining, and social distancing, cicadas aren’t the only ones ready to get it on with reckless abandon. —Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 21 May 2021

Mason Cobb, who was an All-Big 12 Conference linebacker at Oklahoma State, crouched in the middle, running to every hole with reckless abandon. —Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023

The live-axle Alfa delivered a handful of oversteer followed by understeer, while the 510 was temperamental unless it was driven with reckless abandon. —Brendan Mcaleer, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023

What are people in this Nordic country to think about our Prime Minister Sanna Marin, after a viral video this month showed her dancing and singing with reckless abandon? —Marja Heinonen, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022

Similar to Samuel, it was noted that Kittle’s style of playing with reckless abandon increased his injury risk. —Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2022

In this recipe, those include opting not to level dry ingredients, using a cake leveler on the baked layers (rather than obsessing with a knife) and placing chocolate chips on the cake’s exterior with reckless abandon instead of in the neat pattern Huff suggests. —New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022

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