relax your grip/hold
to start to control something less:
The Mafia has relaxed its grip on local businesses.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- chillax
- decontrol
- deregulate
- emancipate
- exempt
- free
- get
- let/set sth loose idiom
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- loosen sb's tongue idiom 1
- loosen sb's tongue
- relax
- release
- unbind
- unconfined
- unhand
- untethered
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