get loose
v. phr.— «Johns and former international Wendell Sailor, who is serving a two-year ban for testing positive to cocaine, were both part of the 22-man Australian squad. Players on the tour, on which heavy alcohol consumption was commonplace, even had a term for their drug use: “getting loose.”» —“Revealed the Kangaroo tour when our stars fell to temptation of drugs” by Andrew Webster League HQ Sept. 2, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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