let someone loose
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
- To allow someone free discretion on a task
- 1908, anonymous, The Way of a Man with a Maid, Volume 2 Chapter 9
- "I fancy you would like to attend to Molly yourself, your Ladyship. If I let you both loose for that purpose, will you promise to allow yourselves to be fastened again in such a way as I may indicate?"
- 1908, anonymous, The Way of a Man with a Maid, Volume 2 Chapter 9