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
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)
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 Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile
Then he added, half aloud, as if talking to himself: "After all, it would have been too stupid to have let oneself go to pot like that."
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de
I consider that one should not let oneself go, but should keep up appearances on all occasions.”
From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas
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