let her rip
Example Sentences
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If you can bypass the guard, barely tip your casting finger with the line and let her rip.
From Time Magazine Archive
Put your back into it, ye lubbers, an’ let her rip, I tell ye; she’s all oak!”
From The Island Treasure by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
Then she added, as if it were an afterthought: “If you promise to let her rip in that style after we reach the open country again I shall sit on the front seat.”
From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Tracy, Louis
To rush along the smooth roads in your car, to let her rip: tock, tock, tock, tock, tock-tock-tock-tock!
From The Later Life by Couperus, Louis
Sumtimes, when all hands got a quarrelin, I jest let her rip rite on a sand-bar, and there let her lay until I made 'em settle their disputes.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
