"let oneself go" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-let oneself go.ogg [Australia] Forms: lets oneself go [present, singular, third-person], letting oneself go [participle, present], let oneself go [participle, past], let oneself go [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|let<,,let> oneself go}} let oneself go (third-person singular simple present lets oneself go, present participle letting oneself go, simple past and past participle let oneself go)
  1. (idiomatic) To relax and enjoy oneself without restraint. Tags: idiomatic Translations (relax and enjoy oneself without restraint): uppoutua (Finnish), eläytyä (Finnish), sich gehen lassen (German), sich treiben lassen (German), loslassen (German), elengedi magát (Hungarian), dejarse llevar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-let_oneself_go-en-verb-H0~b74TB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 71 29 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 73 27 Disambiguation of 'relax and enjoy oneself without restraint': 97 3
  2. (idiomatic) To cease to care about one's appearance, allowing oneself to become unkempt, overweight, etc. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Appearance Translations (cease to care about one's appearance): antaa itsensä rapistua (Finnish), se laisser aller (French), sich gehen lassen (German), verwahrlosen (German), elengedi magát (Hungarian), zaniedbywać się [imperfective] (Polish), zaniedbać się [perfective] (Polish), descuidarse (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-let_oneself_go-en-verb-GPyKhPP2 Disambiguation of Appearance: 5 95 Disambiguation of "cease to care about one's appearance": 3 97

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