let someone loose en · VERB
Meanings
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To allow someone free discretion on a task.
"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 author, The Way of a Man with a Maid, Volume 2 Chapter 9:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| letting someone loose | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lets someone loose | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| let someone loose | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| let someone loose | Tense=Past | lexicographic |