Act without restraint

Usage examples of let rip.

Boris winces momentarily as the nematocysts let rip inside his mouth, but in a moment or so, the cubozoan slips down, and in the meantime, his biophysics model clips the extent of the damage to his stinger-ruptured oropharynx.

Its head pitched back and it let rip to the sky a screech so earsplitting, Madelyne maintained that forever after she had a slight ringing in her ears.

Seeing Rachel wrinkling her long elegant nose at the smell of dog and game-keeper's ferret, which always surfaced on hot days, Lysander let rip with air freshener and fly spray and got a bollocking for using aerosols.

Mostly single-shot rifle and pistol fire, but occasionally someone let rip with a tommy gun on full auto.

He let rip with a blast that would have done his old drill instructor proud.

He let rip a long jolting burst, left to right, at the bobbing line of heads that had suddenly appeared to his right, over the rear end of the war wag, watching dispassionately as they burst apart like so much rotten fruit.

As the speed increased, the outriders let rip with shrieks that ripped across the quiet of the night sky, spurring their horses to a gallop as they headed off to recce the territory ahead.

Now and again he'd gather his strength and let rip with a psistorm that sent armed troops flying helplessly in the grip of sudden storm winds, but mostly the fighters of both sides were packed too closely together for him to achieve much.

Still pivoting, preparing to release his deadly missile, Sean let rip with a burst of wild fire from his gun.

I didn't get it all out because Howard whirled and let rip again and the blast dazzled my eyes against the darkness of the wood.

She suspected that if he truly did let rip on their wedding plans, well&mdash.

She suspected that if he truly did let rip on their wedding plans, well~mdash.

When a larger, grander-looking machine landed behind the first wave, Inesiji had set the pulse gun to max, disabled the safety buffers and let rip, pouring fire down into the large craft, spreading it to the smaller landers and then setting the gun to movement-automatic and scrambling and rolling away down the long curved gallery with just his hand weapon before the returning fire had sliced into the position seconds later, ripping a twenty-metre hole out of the side of the great spherical building.