LET IT GO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does let it go mean? 

• LET IT GO (verb)
  The verb LET IT GO has 1 sense:

1. not act

  Familiarity information: LET IT GO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LET IT GO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not act

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

He thought of a reply but let it go

Hypernyms (to "let it go" is one way to...):

forbear; refrain (resist doing something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was tossed into the air with it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My dearest Emma, do not pretend, with your sweet temper, to understand a bad one, or to lay down rules for it: you must let it go its own way.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was just leaving the stile; yet, as the path was narrow, I sat still to let it go by.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“You have both won honor from this meeting, and it would be sin and shame to let it go further.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let it go around no more.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But he gripped his life with a miser's clutch and would not let it go.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Well, Buck, my boy, he went on in a genial voice, we’ve had our little ruction, and the best thing we can do is to let it go at that.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I had let it go by, and had deservedly lost her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He gave a short laugh, shook hands with her, and, putting his finger under her chin, turned up her face, examined it gravely, and let it go, saying with a nod, You've got your grandfather's spirit, if you haven't his face.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

However, I once caught a young male of three years old, and endeavoured, by all marks of tenderness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squalling, and scratching, and biting with such violence, that I was forced to let it go; and it was high time, for a whole troop of old ones came about us at the noise, but finding the cub was safe (for away it ran), and my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)