Talk:with gay abandon

RFM discussion: March–April 2024
We have with gay abandon, but you can also say Citations:with wild abandon in (AFAIK) the same sense, and simply Citations:with abandon, not to mention,. I was going to propose to make with abandon the lemma and point the versions with adjectives to it, but I notice that the use of abandon without is plenty well attested (and not recent, so I doubt forms with with are JIFFYed in or anything); I added an 1846 cite to abandon and more here... so maybe we should just merge/redirect with gay abandon and with abandon to abandon? - -sche (discuss) 04:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * PS there's been some back and forth in the edit history over whether it's dated or not... - -sche (discuss) 04:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Google NGrams shows continued use of with gay abandon.
 * Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary ("CALD") and UD are the sole OneLook references that have it. CALD has it as a run-in at abandon, OneLook showing the link thereto as "with (gay/wild) abandon". Redirects to abandon and some "collocations" might be good enough for our users. (It would be nice if linking to a sense opened up syns, ants, hypers, hypos, and cols for the linked-to sense.) DCDuring (talk) 14:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Other prepositions, like of and in precede wild/gay abandon, but, I believe, less frequently abandon alone (after filtering out "[punctuation] abandon", "Abandon, Maine", "abandon ship", and other collocations).
 * Abandon (noun) seems to be enjoying a comeback in gay and feminist literature and continues to be used in religious writings. DCDuring (talk) 14:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Merged to abandon. - -sche (discuss) 06:01, 15 April 2024 (UTC)