let it all hang out
Example Sentences
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I realized that if a book that good could have a problem getting published, all writers might as well just do our thing and let it all hang out.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024
There's no need to cover it — broccoli requires air circulation so that it can breathe, so let it all hang out.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2022
Or more specifically, to bleep only part of a potentially offensive word in a broadcast-news story or to let it all hang out?
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2015
For years now, has tracked a tamped-down, repressed ’50s America becoming one where people let it all hang out.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2014
And it felt healthy to see a rap audience* stop caring about being cool or one-upping anybody for a minute and just let it all hang out.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2012