make free with someone—be too familiar or impudent in one’s behavior with a person:
- Having been with him and his family in Loch Broom I had the misfortune to make too free with a servant maid.
make someone free —(also: set someone free) release a person from prison, slavery, etc.:
- Scott sued for his freedom in Missouri in 1846, claiming his residence in a free state and a free territory made him free.