no strings attached

Idioms and Phrases

Without conditions or restrictions, as in They give each of the children $10,000 a year with no strings attached . This expression dates from the mid-1900s, although string in the sense of “a limitation” has been used since the late 1800s.

Related Words

• actually
• categorically
• definitely
• doubtless
• exactly
• positively
• precisely
• really
• surely
• truly
• unconditionally
• unquestionably