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Definition 2024
help_oneself
help oneself
English
Verb
- (reflexive) To take something freely; to serve oneself without restraint.
- He said I could help myself to the chocolates.
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
- Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love."
- To exhibit self-control.
- Sorry for eating all the chocolates - I couldn't help myself.
- Used other than as an idiom: see help.
- God helps those who help themselves.
Translations
take something freely
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