| 单词 | to hang loose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hang (or stay) loose d. Of persons, etc.: relaxed or easy, calm; uninhibited. Esp. predic. (quasi-adv.) in to hang (or stay) loose. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > [adjective] eveneOE still1340 unperturbeda1450 unmovedc1480 quietful1494 lowna1500 calma1568 calmya1586 unpassionatea1586 smartless1593 reposeful1594 dispassionate1595 recollected1595 unaffectedc1595 unpassioned?1605 unpassionated1611 collecteda1616 tranquila1616 untouched1616 impassionate1621 composed1628 dispassioneda1631 tranquillous1638 slow1639 serene1640 dispassionated1647 imperturbed1652 unruffled1654 reposing1655 equanimous1656 perplacid1660 placate1662 equal1680 collect1682 cooled1682 posed1693 sedate1693 impassive1699 uninflamed1714 unexcited1735 unalarmed1756 unfanned1764 unagitated1772 undistraught1773 recollected1792 equable1796 unfussy1823 take-it-easy1825 unflurried1854 cool1855 comfortable1856 disimpassioned1860 tremorless1869 unpressured1879 unrippled1883 ice-cool1891 unrattled1891 Zen-likea1908 unrestless1919 steadyish1924 ataractic1941 relaxed1958 nonplussed1960 loose1968 Zenned-out1968 downtempo1972 mellowed1977 de-stressed1999 the mind > emotion > calmness > become composed or calm [verb (intransitive)] > be calm to hang (or stay) loose1968 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > in action, conduct, or habit freec1300 unbridledc1374 riotous?1456 liberala1500 unrestrained1531 libertine1593 relaxed1623 long-waisted1647 self-abandoning1817 laissez-aller1818 self-abandoned1833 uninhibited1880 un-Victorian1908 leggo1943 zizzy1966 loose1968 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > have freedom of action [verb (intransitive)] > act without restraint to run riot?1523 to run (out) at riot1529 to hang (or stay) loose1968 1968 R. Coover Universal Baseball Assoc. viii. 242 ‘Hang loose,’ he says, and pulling down his mask, trots back behind home plate. 1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3–4 40 Down loose, opposite of uptight.—College students, both sexes, Minnesota. 1970 S. Bellow Mr Sammler's Planet iv. 161 Daddy had a bad thing about me, made me financially too independent. You know—pampered me and let me hang too loose. 1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xviii. 195 This is the Captain. Stay loose, everybody. It's just their E.C.M. 1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) iv. 14/2 ‘And remember,’ he told him, waving, ‘stay loose’. 1977 Zigzag Mar. 12/3 The owners were like alcoholics, but they were nice people..loose. 1982 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Nov. 16 The sympathetic farewell is undiminished: Hang in there vies with Hang tough and Hang loose, and Walk light may cheer up the overweight. to hang loose (to) 1. Loosely; with a loose hold. to sit loose (figurative): to be independent or indifferent; to hold loosely to, not to be enslaved to; occasionally not to weigh heavily upon. †So to hang loose (to). to hold loose: to be indifferent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)] to put in no chaloir1477 not to care1490 to let the world wag (as it will)c1525 not to care a chip1556 to hang loose (to)1591 (to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632 not to careor matter a farthing1647 not to care a doit1660 (not) to care twopencea1744 not to give a curse (also damn)1763 not to care a dump1821 not to care beans1833 not to care a darn1840 not to give a darn1840 not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861 not to care (also give) a whoop1867 (to care) not a fouter1871 not to care (or give) a toss1876 not to give (also care) a fuck1879 je m'en fiche1889 not to care a dit(e)1907 je m'en fous1918 not to give a shit1918 to pay no nevermind1946 not to give a sod1949 not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960 not to give a stuff1974 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)] to have one's own rulea1393 to be one's own man (also woman, person)a1425 to be one's own master?1510 to stand on one's own bottom1564 to sit loose1591 independa1657 to paddle one's own canoe1828 to go it alone1842 to run one's own show1892 to go one's (own) gait1922 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > be suitable, appropriate, or suit [verb (intransitive)] > suit a person to sit loose1591 to be up (down, in) one's street1903 to be (right) up (also down) one's alley1922 to meet up with1972 1591 H. Smith Pride Nabuchadnezzar 27 How earnest hee was about his dreame and how loose he sat after in his pallace. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. 83 The best counsell I can give you, is that you hang loose to all these outward comforts. 1680 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 281 Theref. get loose, my soul, from these th. & sitt loose to them. 1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 480 I found within a Fortnight after I arriv'd, that he sat very loose with the King his Master. 1706 F. Atterbury Serm. Funeral Mr. Bennet 6 To sit as loose from those Pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 119. ¶2 The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners, sit more loose upon us. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xiii. 174 A fluctuating series of governors holding loose, and not in earnest. 1880 Macmillan's Mag. No. 245. 397 To the rubrical theories he simply sat loose. < as lemmas |
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