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
As Jeroboam Warner used to say—he was in the same rigiment with me in 1812—the only way to manage this business of livin' is to give a whoop and let her rip!
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Arcot—set it down and let her rip on about half a million horsepower for a second or so.
From Invaders from the Infinite by Campbell, John Wood
Mr. Chief Engineer, open that throttle all it'll go, and let her rip, and mind you're standing by for my next order.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.
And in his own vivid phrase, he "let her rip."
From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May
