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