kick over the traces
(UK, dated, informal) To rebel against authority; to defy orders or instructions.
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(UK, dated, informal) To rebel against authority; to defy orders or instructions.
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(UK, dated, informal) To live overextravagantly; to come to grief by fast living.
: "I remember that she once said to me, 'Women do get the worst of it when they kick over the traces,'" Hillyard resumed. "And undoubtedly they do. On the other hand you have McKerrel's hard-headed verdict, 'If these poor neurotic bodies…
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