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Let go of   /lɛt goʊ əv/   Listen
Let go of

verb
1.
Release, as from one's grip.  Synonyms: let go, release, relinquish.  "Relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"






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"Let go of" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Let go of my arm, sir!" cried he, and suddenly I felt a whirlwind of rage answering the rage in his eyes. The pent-up exasperation of three weeks rushed to its violent release. He struck me in the face with the hand that was gripped about his umbrella. He meant to strike me in the face and then escape ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells

... was myself alone I considered. I was hurt and worried, and made a martyr of myself. If I had thought more of you, all would have been well. This time I think I—I have thought a little more of you. It was to get at you and not myself that I wanted to see again. So I saw again. I let go of myself and reached out for you. So now—why, ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... mean?" demanded the young auctioneer, aroused at last to the necessity of doing something in his own behalf. "Let go of me!" ...
— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer

... wrap me up in cotton flannel and feed me warm milk with a spoon? Let go of me and quit your ...
— Calumet 'K' • Samuel Merwin

... is impossible to say. We careered round and round for perhaps an hour, flying rather than floating, getting gradually more and more into the middle of the surge, and then nearer and nearer to its horrible inner edge. All this time I had never let go of the ringbolt. My brother was at the stern, holding on to a small empty water-cask which had been securely lashed under the coop of the counter, and was the only thing on deck that had not been swept overboard when the gale first took us. As we approached the brink of the pit ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck


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