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let slide

Idioms  

  1. see let ride; let slip.

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Dismounted down he fell, and from his hand Let slide the flowing reins, which, to the earth Stooping, Meriones in haste resumed,750 And briefly thus Idomeneus address'd.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Her solace is the Minstrel's: I'd Let slide My flocks of verse without a guide.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 by Various

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