cutting loose
Letting go completely
Cutting loose means releasing restraint and acting freely, often with abandon.
Someone cutting loose at a party is dancing, drinking, or celebrating without inhibition: After exams, we really cut loose.
The phrase can also mean severing ties: She finally cut loose from her controlling family.
The image is of untethering something previously held back.
- partyingSocial revelry in progress
- untetheringDisconnecting a restraint
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- independenceFreedom from external control
- revelryNoisy, lively celebration
having a blast · breaking free · living it up · blowing off steam · going wild · breakaway · throwing caution · catharsis · unburdening · release · spontaneity · emancipation · wildness · self-expression · abandonment · indulgence · severance · carefree
- letting looseletting go, going wild, going crazy, running wild, losing control
- liberationfreedom, release, escape, deliverance, emancipation
- jazz funeralsecond line, brass band, parade, grand marshal, umbrella
cutting looseholding back
Preventing forward movement
keeping it together · bottling up · playing it safe · toeing the line · conforming
cutting loosesettling down
Becoming stable and rooted
calming down · winding down · chilling out · taking it easy · cooling off
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