Let go
Let go verb - Release, as from one's grip.
Both terms in one sentence
- Although the smart thing for Tracy would be to pretend to accept the money and then turn it in to the Police Department as soon as he's let go, Tracy decides to throw it back in Caprice's face on principle.
Source: Honor Before Reason / Film -
Kadabra, when Haunter makes them fall over a balcony toward a concrete road, and another in Pokémon 2000 where they let go of Lugia and supposedly fall to their deaths, yet clearly survive the fall and return in the ending sequence to throw another sledgehammer at the fourth wall.
Source: Joker Immunity - We Have Reserves: When it comes to testing, you are always replaceable, and companies will just throw new hires into the grinder and see which of them survive, knowing that for every one of them who gets let go there is another three eager to take their place.
Source: Webcomic / The Trenches
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