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let loose

Verb

Meaning

express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

turn loose or free from restraint

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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard. Bill Bailey

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. Thomas Paine

This is the age of oddities let loose. Lord Byron

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. Robert Frost

And sun and moon and starry fires and earth and air and sea Are creatures from the deep let loose who pause in ecstasy, Or wing their wild and heavenly way until again they find The ancient deep and fade therein, enraptured, bright and blind. George William Russell

A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses. Japanese Proverb

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