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单词 to cut loose
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to cut loose
42. to cut loose:
a. transitive. To loosen or set free by cutting that which fastens or confines.
b. intransitive. To sever oneself, free oneself, escape.
ΘΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > from confinement
atburstc1000
outbreakOE
strayc1330
aventc1375
twinc1386
out-wina1425
to break away1535
disengage1647
to break bounds1816
to cut loose1828
1828 W. Scott Tales of Grandfather 1st Ser. III. i. 23 Dacre's quarters were attacked, and his horses all cut loose.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 79 In leaving the only home she had ever known, and cutting loose from the protection of a friend whom she loved and revered.
1889 A. E. Barr Feet of Clay xv. 301 I will cut loose from every entanglement.
c. To begin to act freely; to start off; to commence an attack; to let oneself go. U.S.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] > commence an attack
enterprisec1570
to go in1810
to cut loose1900
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (intransitive)] > escape from restraint > throw off restraint
to throw off1551
to break forth1608
to take a loose1703
to let rip1857
to kick over the traces1861
to cut loose1900
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
onginOE
aginOE
ginc1175
to go tillc1175
to take onc1175
comsea1225
fanga1225
to go toc1275
i-ginc1275
commencec1320
to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400
to lay to one's hand(sc1405
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to set toc1425
standa1450
to make to1563
to fall to it1570
to start out1574
to fall to1577
to run upon ——1581
to break off1591
start1607
to set in1608
to set to one's hands1611
to put toa1616
to fall ona1625
in1633
to fall aboard1642
auspicatea1670
to set out1693
to enter (into) the fray1698
open1708
to start in1737
inchoate1767
to set off1774
go1780
start1785
to on with1843
to kick off1857
to start in on1859
to steam up1860
to push off1909
to cut loose1923
to get (also put) the show on the road1941
to get one's arse in gear1948
1900 G. Ade More Fables (1902) 182 She would approach the Piano timidly and sort of Trifle with it for a while, and say they would have to make Allowances, and then she would Cut Loose and worry the whole Block.
1901 S. E. White Westerners xviii. 157 You just ought to see him when he cuts loose.
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 244 It was York shot Reilly, after Cork had cut loose at him.
1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 66 My lorry had been seen, however. As I was taking it round a corner the Huns cut loose and caused me to go down that road as fast as the motor would take me.
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xi. 196 He just now cut loose with ‘Goodness gracious..I should call this the deuce of a mess’.
1941 H. L. Mencken Newspaper Days (1942) xi. 184 When he got down his first dozen mugs..he cut loose with an exultant yodel.
d.to cut scores: to settle accounts (with): see score n. Obsolete.
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