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cut loose

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cut loose
1. if a person or organization cuts loose, they separate themselves from another person or organization. She cut loose from her sponsors and decided to try to fund herself instead. (usually + from)
(mainly American)
2. to behave in a way that is free and relaxed, especially when you are enjoying yourself. After a few glasses of wine everyone just cut loose and started dancing.
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cut loose someone/something

to get rid of someone or something that you control or own. We're cutting loose only those teachers whose work is below standard.
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cut someone/something loose
to get rid of or release someone or something. He made it in baseball to the major leagues, but the Sox cut him loose because he could not hit. Many workers will be cut loose in the upcoming staff reductions.
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cut loose
to behave or express yourself in a free or forceful way. As we crossed the lobby, Charlie cut loose with a yell that made everyone stop and stare at us.
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Having cut loose as many horses as they could conveniently carry off, the Blackfeet scouts rejoined their comrades, and all remained patiently round the camp.
Cut loose, then, in high spirits, and rose gently but steadily, with a light breeze at North, which bore us in the direction of the British Channel.
As soon as the last good-bys were said, and the steamer had cut loose from the wharf, the load of care, anxiety, and responsibility which I had carried for eighteen years began to lift itself from my shoulders at the rate, it seemed to me, of a pound a minute.
 
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