Meaning of write one's own ticket | Babel Free

Definitions

To be empowered to choose whichever job, financial arrangement, or course of action one desires.

idiomatic

Examples

“Mr. DeChadenedes said that any one wishing to back the Republican candidate could write his own ticket and name his own price.”

“Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies would sell out their stock of Elvis' recordings, and that the King could write his own ticket when he returned, in both the recording and the film industries. Parker was right.”

CEFR level