lose oneself in

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lose oneself in someone or something

to be thoroughly absorbed in someone or something; to become engrossed in someone or something. Frank loses himself in his children when he is at home. When I lose myself in my work, time just rushes by.

See also: lose, oneself

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Design is dialogue, the goal of which is simply (and impossibly) to lose oneself in the design process: "this self-forgetting with another person over some matter, because one doesn't lose oneself in the other, and one doesn't speak with another person, but with him about something. The butterfly and the potato Vilem Flusser on design by Smith, Chadwick Truscott / ArtUS It can be a bit of a bind when, trying to lose oneself in the plot of a film in an attempt to believe that it's real, one finds oneself asking how the director did something or how the actor knew to do what he did. Keep it local and keep it real in 2008; Food by The Journal (Newcastle, England) It is very easy to lose oneself in the sheer aroma of high fashion fabrics, and the geometric shapes that adorn each hanger. The Total Woman Apparel Choices by Mary Lorainne / Women's issues/gender studies community			Lord love a duck! Lord only knows lose lose a bundle lose appetite lose at lose by lose contact with lose cool lose count of lose edge lose face lose grip lose ground lose ground to lose head lose heart lose heart to lose hold on lose in lose it lose marbles lose mind lose money on lose nerve lose oneself in lose out lose out to lose patience lose rag lose reason lose shirt lose sight of lose sleep lose sleep over lose some amount of time lose temper lose the plot lose the thread lose the use of lose time lose to lose touch lose touch with reality lose trace of lose track lose train of thought losing losing streak loss lost			lose individuality lose it lose it lose it lose it lose life lose life lose life lose life lose lunch lose luster lose marbles lose marbles lose marbles lose marbles lose mind lose mind lose mind lose mind lose money hand over fist lose money hand over fist lose money hand over fist lose money hand over fist lose money on lose morale Lose My Number lose nerve lose no time lose one's temper lose one’s life lose oneself in lose out lose out lose out lose out lose out on lose out on lose out on lose out to lose patience lose patience lose patience lose patience lose rag lose rag lose rag lose rag lose reason lose returns lose shirt lose shirt lose sight of lose sight of lose sight of lose sleep lose sleep about lose sleep over lose some amount of time lose spirit lose strength lose temper

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