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

So wrong to let oneself go to happiness for those few moments that one should immediately be punished?

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von

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

“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

I consider that one should not let oneself go, but should keep up appearances on all occasions.”

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas