cut loose

Crew members had to cut through the ice on the streets to get shots.

If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.

Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.

At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.

It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!