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let one's short back and sides down en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal) To let one's hair down, especially on the part of a man who is very straight-laced.
    • I'd like to see chef Shaun let his short back-and-sides down and serve that sauce over a rolled, braised veal breast, or a veal cheek (there's a pig's cheek on the 10 course menu). 2013 September 11, Wilfrid, “Juni: Shaun Hergatt's Second Act”, in At the Sign of the Pink Pig:
    • It's on the way home that they let their hair down.' Well, only as much as you can let short-back-and-sides down. 2008, Tom Gleeson, Playing Poker with the SAS: A Comedy Tour of Iraq and Afghanistan, →ISBN:
    • Even a military man, though, can let his short back and sides down when national pride is to be celebrated. 2012, Jeff Dawson, Back Home: England And The 1970 World Cup, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
let one's short back and sides down Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
let one's short back and sides down Tense=Past lexicographic
letting one's short back and sides down Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lets one's short back and sides down Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic