let oneself go

Example Sentences

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“One mustn’t let oneself go soft. The day you just sit in your armchair and stop moving, you’re screwed.”

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2018

“I consider as a general rule,” he answered quietly, “that it is not right to let oneself go and to make oneself at home, but that self-restraint should always be exercised, whatever the circumstances.”

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

Of course one must often let oneself go, and I should be the last to defend a so-called moral discipline, or a pedantic rule of monastic severity.

From The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze by Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile

Then he added, half aloud, as if talking to himself: "After all, it would have been too stupid to have let oneself go to pot like that."

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de

It was an unlovely place, a place in which one might easily feel homesick and that the world was empty of affection, if one let oneself go that way.

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth