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
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 think it would be so inspiring, it would just make one let oneself go!
From A Popular Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol
One can now give oneself and let oneself go as if one were at home.
From Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts by Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins)
