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

Then there would be a boom, and one might let oneself go a little.

From Five Tales by Galsworthy, John

It's rather fun selling at a Bazaar; one can let oneself go so much more!

From Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show by Anstey, F.

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