let someone loose
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