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let one go





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Mrs Murray said she had to "let one go" to look after the other.

From BBC Dec. 28, 2023

So Poke did a very smart thing, a very sensible thing: he raised his leg, shut the eye, and let one go.

From The New Yorker Oct. 22, 2018

"Getting beat's one thing. When you feel like you kind of gave one away, let one go, that's a different kind of loss," Lackey said.

From US News Jun. 30, 2016

He revealed the ball was supposed to go to Durant but said he had no choice but to let one go.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2012

Or rather, let one go              To urge upon the King most speedily,              The country's need demands, this way or that,              That he compose himself; and though it were              Repenting a rash deed against ourselves!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno




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