English

Verb

give a loose

1. (now rare) To give vent (to), to let loose (unrestrained feelings, emotions etc.).
   • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin 1985, p. 64:

     There I began to breathe a little freer, and to give a loose to those warm emotions which the sight of such an encounter had raised in me.