break loose

English

Etymology

From Middle English breken los, breken lous, breken lowse, equivalent to break +‎ loose.

Verb

break loose (third-person singular simple present breaks loose, present participle breaking loose, simple past broke loose, past participle broken loose)

  1. To escape; to free oneself.
    • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620:
      They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
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