let oneself go
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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 consider that one should not let oneself go, but should keep up appearances on all occasions.”
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
“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 Thomas Mann
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 Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins) Eliot
Of course one must often let oneself go, and I should be the last to defend a so-called moral discipline, or a pedantic rule of monastic severity.
From The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
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