all-hang-out
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the phrase let it all hang out.
Adjective
[edit]- (attributive) unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.
- 1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:
- Although The Human Voice parody in Law of Desire was a funny conceit, all out of control and frantic nervousness, Women on the Verge shows Almodóvar to be in tight form, the laughs emerging from a skilled manipulation of the farce structure rather than all-hang-out anarchism of Matador or Law of Desire.
- 1991, Daniel Mornin, All Our Fault: A Novel, Random House (UK), →ISBN:
- […] the "all-hang-out" school of contemporary biography to which Morgan's book belongs