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 think it would be so inspiring, it would just make one let oneself go!

From A Popular Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol

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

From Five Tales by Galsworthy, John

“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

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