loosen your grip/hold
If you loosen your grip/hold on a situation, or your grip/hold loosens, you decide to control it less:
The dictator's grip on the country has not loosened.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- chillax
- decontrol
- deregulate
- emancipate
- exempt
- free
- get
- let/set sth loose idiom
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- loosen sb's tongue idiom 1
- loosen sb's tongue
- relax your grip/hold idiom
- release
- unbind
- unconfined
- unhand
- untethered
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