druthers

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If I'd had my druthers, they'd get into a padlocked room and nobody would emerge until you had an agreement.

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  1. plural noun Informal A choice or preference: "Given their druthers, these hell-for-leather free marketeers might sell the post office” (George F. Will).

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  • And if I had my druthers, we would have an open-source version in addition to open standards. —  Robin Chase on Zipcar and her next big idea
  • If everybody had their druthers, the status quo would be just dandy: networks distributing programming to local broadcasters and selling the aggregated audience to advertisers at ever higher costs per thousand. —  Advertising Age - Homepage
  • If I had my druthers I'd pack up and head home tonight, but I'm with my in-laws, so the druthers aren't my own. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • If I'd had my druthers, they'd get into a padlocked room and nobody would emerge until you had an agreement. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • By these druthers, any song in which options are weighed lilts conservative; any song that narrates the selection of the correct option must, therefore, be the product of a conservative mindset. —  The Edge of the American West
 

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  1. Alteration of the phrase 'd rather, from would rather.
 

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