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
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
Then there would be a boom, and one might let oneself go a little.
From Five Tales by John Galsworthy
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 Elizabeth von Arnim
“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
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