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单词 to let rip
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to let (someone or something) rip
(b) to let (someone or something) rip: to allow (someone or something) to go vigorously or to continue unchecked or without interference.
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1863 Harper's Mag. Oct. 716/1 We cannot raise a tip To pay our board and laundry bill, And have to ‘let 'em rip’.
1869 H. Phillips Jrnl. 14 Dec. (typescript) 203 All hands tailing sheep let them rip at night.
1877 Temple Bar May 109Let him rip’ is a common verdict; ‘we can turn him out when his time is up’.
1909 C. Owen Philip Loveluck xii. 175 I can rub along somehow..by letting the pressing rip.
1947 H. Read Grass Roots of Art iii. 71 We cannot..oppose the machine. We must let it rip, and with confidence.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 24 June viii. 9/1 If this ‘cripple pitch’ did cross the hitter's power zone and the score was close, and an extra-base hit could be a game-changer, he would let 'er rip.
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to let rip
b. to let rip: to act or proceed without restraint; (also) to speak violently.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > not restrain [verb (transitive)]
slidec1386
to give a person rope (also enough rope, etc.)a1475
to give (the) rein(s) (to)1484
to let go1526
to give (a horse) his (also her, its, etc.) head1571
license1605
to give linea1616
unchecka1616
to give a loose (occasionally give loose) to1685
to give stretch to1777
to let rip1857
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
1857 Hutchings' Illustr. Calif. Mag. Aug. 88/2 We have no courts, nor won't have, until next summer, unless it be one-horse courts, and those we thought we'd ‘let rip’, so that the Justices and Constables, could pay their liquor bills.
1894 F. A. Barkly Among Boers & Basutos (ed. 2) xiv. 186 I galloped round the Kopje with my police and half-a-dozen volunteers..and we ‘letrip’ to use the Africander expression.
1917 H. F. B. Walker Doctor's Diary in Damaraland iii. 44 We could not see the Germans very well, but whenever we saw a little smoke our fellows let rip at it.
1958 Health & Strength 19 June 31/1 He just let rip with left and right in a steady stream of hooks, jabs and uppercuts.
1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face viii. 95 Almost as soon as I had let rip, however, I realized the injustice of my complaint.
1998 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 27 Your drug-use pattern was to make do with 'ludes and booze for most of the month and then let rip with a stonking crack and scag binge.
2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 13 So, yes, I probably did let rip with a bit of vocabulary.
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