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let oneself go
Idioms and Phrases
see let go , def. 5.Example Sentences
鈥淚 actually care more about beauty today than when I was young. I like to dress rather well, in pretty, simple and practical dresses. I put on foundation and perfume in the morning, lipstick after each meal, and I go to the hairdresser鈥檚 every week. I鈥檓 also careful not to eat foods that are either too rich or too sweet. It鈥檚 important to not let oneself go. I used to enjoy wearing necklaces, but I can no longer attach them, so I gave up.鈥
鈥淵ou have to have an outlet. Mac鈥檚 outlet has been sports,鈥 says his dad Joshua, 鈥淭o let oneself go and let it out. Because on playing fields, basketball specifically, everybody鈥檚 equal and there鈥檚 no pointing and name-calling. It鈥檚 all about teamwork. And Mac鈥檚 embraced that.鈥
Yes, indeed; there one can let oneself go, in utter enjoyment, knowing that there can be no onslaught of large and massive Philistine, sweeping her ample wraps, kicking your toes, struggling across your knees, banging down the seat of her stall with a report that eclipses and blots out a dozen delicate chords.
It's rather fun selling at a Bazaar; one can let oneself go so much more!
It was childish, in a way; on the other hand, it was undeniably pleasant to think of oneself as one was being tempted to, as a sort of Sleeping Beauty of the screen only waiting to be awakened to vivid life by one wave of the witching wand of courage and self-confidence; pleasant to let oneself go and believe such things might be.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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