let oneself go

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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 there would be a boom, and one might let oneself go a little.

From Five Tales by Galsworthy, John