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let all holds go verb phrase To relinquish one’s grip or restraint, let loose, put everything aside.

1859 Taliaferro Fisher’s River 60 I jist let all holts go, and begun to jump right up and down. 1940 Hall Coll (Gatlinburg TN) So when the bear got in the right position, I pulled the trigger on it. It just let all holts go and fell over on two limbs there and just laid there, just as dead as it could be.

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