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41loosen tongue — loosen (your) tongue if alcohol loosens your tongue, it makes you talk a lot without thinking carefully about what you are saying. Her tongue loosened by drink, she began to say things that she would later regret …
42loosen the reins — loosen/relax the reins tighten the reins to start to control something or someone more carefully. The Government has relaxed the reins on wage control to boost consumer spending. (often + on) …
43loosen somebody's tongue — loosen sb s ˈtongue idiom to make sb talk more freely than usual • A bottle of wine had loosened Harry s tongue. Main entry: ↑loosenidiom …
44loosen your bowels — to cause to defecate Although not necessarily become loose2. It was fit to loosen the bowels of a bronze statue. (Fraser, 1975) …
45loosen someone's tongue — make someone talk freely. → loosen …
46loosen the purse strings — to allow more money to be spent. We shouldn t expect the Chancellor to loosen the purse strings too much in the Budget …
47loosen up — intransitive verb Date: 1922 to become less tense ; relax …
48loosen — verb /ˈluːsn̩/ make something less tight; unfasten After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt. Ant: tighten See Also: loose, unloosen …
49loosen — Synonyms and related words: abate, bate, cast off, cushion, cut apart, detach, diffuse, discharge, disengage, disenthrall, disjoin, disperse, doff, ease, ease off, ease up, emancipate, fluff, free, gentle, knead, lax, laxate, let down, let go,… …
50loosen up — Synonyms and related words: amuse, beguile, beguile the time, convulse, delight, divert, drown care, ease off, enliven, entertain, exhilarate, fracture one, have a ball, have fun, kill, kill time, knock dead, laugh it up, live it up, raise a… …
