idiom · informal

let one's hair down

UK/lɛt wʌnz hɛə daʊn/US/lɛt wʌnz hɛr daʊn/LET·one's·HAIR·DOWN

speakingtask2

to relax and enjoy oneself, especially after being formal or reserved

Examples

“N/A”

“N/A”

“N/A”

Band 8 sentence

“After the conference, the delegates went to a nearby bar to let their hair down.”

Collocations

  • go out and let your hair down

Word family

let one's hair down phrase

Common mistakes

let hair down→let one's hair down

let my hair up→let my hair down

Say it for a higher band

5relax→6chill out→7+let one's hair down

Synonyms

cut loose

Easily confused

cut loose

“They really cut loose at the celebration and danced until dawn.”

Related words

be on cloud ninedown in the dumpson edgekeep a stiff upper lipwear one's heart on one's sleevelet off steamhead over heels (in love)be over the moon

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