Willy-nilly

Definition

willy-nilly /wÇli 'nÇli/ adv စိတ္ပါပါ မပါပါ။ ႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္ မႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္။ He was forced willy-nilly to sit through a lot of boring speeches.

Examples

1. ‘For their part
2. the interns had no special passion for aquatic life. They had been recruited at the last minute by a government summer job program and assigned
3. willy-nilly
4. to the aquarium.’
5. ‘Caught up
6. in lawlessness of a sort were also numberless worthy members of the public
7. who faced a stupefying barrage of emergency laws passed on sumptuary
8. economic and security grounds.’
9. ‘Now
10. 11 years later
11. he was the Chief Commissioner of the hill State of Manipur
12. and had willy-nilly to depute election officers and to supervise the polling and the counting.’
13. ‘But willy-nilly one must
14. come hail or thunderstorm.’
15. ‘There are some pieces of music that must be parceled out over a lifetime
16. and you don't want to spend their impact willy-nilly.’
17. ‘If they're used willy-nilly
18. they will merely increase public anxiety.’
19. ‘Large crowds gather and people just wander across the road willy-nilly.’
20. ‘‘Businesses are not free to spend their money willy-nilly
21. ’ she said.’
22. ‘If there's a suspicion they are just doing it for money and handing out tickets willy-nilly irrespective of the traffic implications
23. then it's not going to go down well with motorists.’
24. ‘Second question: how many of you spend money willy-nilly on cosmetics
25. jewelry
26. clothes
27. fast food
28. movies
29. and weekend beer?’
30. ‘I can't wait for the day when my husband and I no longer have a mortgage and that prospect alone provides us with the motivation not to spend money willy-nilly on new cars and expensive holidays.’
31. ‘It was a wait and see situation; the Government would not throw money around willy-nilly
32. so it just waited to see whether that organism could live in New Zealand.’
33. ‘The Minister himself has given up now on going through the review process; he is just making arbitrary closure decisions around the country
34. whether they are good schools or bad schools.’
35. ‘We also couldn't go firing darts willy-nilly as they are very powerful.’
36. ‘Hopefully the commanders here in the field will pause to consider the dire consequences of backlash before rushing in willy-nilly to crush those ‘insurgents’.’
37. ‘If you rummage around in the history of the popular song
38. you'll find innumerable instances of lyrics and musical passages appropriated and misappropriated willy-nilly.’
39. ‘It was made perfectly clear that money will not be tipped onto a table for the town to spend willy-nilly on pet projects.’
40. ‘Can these buffoons really wander willy-nilly around the congested airspace above Britain with no regard for the professional pilots who rely on every other pilot to be up-to-speed on what is happening in their area?’
41. ‘The perception is that they are pretty safe drugs and are handed out willy-nilly
42. with a lot of pressure from some patients.’
43. ‘At the same time
44. Americans also said they will not be spending willy-nilly.’