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break loose

to escape. People are worried that they would be unsafe if that tiger ever broke loose.

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With her means of protection gone, Lys was now at the mercy of the hatchet-man; nor was it many hours before he had caught her at the base of the cliff and seized her; but as he bore her triumphantly aloft toward his cave, she had managed to break loose and escape him. The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context Love is his tyrant, and lives lordly in him and lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him on, as a tyrant leads a State, to the performance of any reckless deed by which he can maintain himself and the rabble of his associates, whether those whom evil communications have brought in from without, or those whom he himself has allowed to break loose within him by reason of a similar evil nature in himself. The Republic by Plato View in context "Expect all hell to break loose," he cautioned me, "but don't mind it. The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context More results

References in classic literature

With her means of protection gone, Lys was now at the mercy of the hatchet-man; nor was it many hours before he had caught her at the base of the cliff and seized her; but as he bore her triumphantly aloft toward his cave, she had managed to break loose and escape him.

The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

Love is his tyrant, and lives lordly in him and lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him on, as a tyrant leads a State, to the performance of any reckless deed by which he can maintain himself and the rabble of his associates, whether those whom evil communications have brought in from without, or those whom he himself has allowed to break loose within him by reason of a similar evil nature in himself.

The Republic by Plato View in context

"Expect all hell to break loose," he cautioned me, "but don't mind it.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

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