Read full poem →A Petrarch worth its weight in gold.
I hoped she’d lose it; for my love
Was grown so dainty, high, and nice,
Dictionary Entry
To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.
In a Sentence
“When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just lost it.”
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Poetry examples for “lose it”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To see how big it is; and as for me,
If money must be lost, I'd rather lose it
On Elenor Murray than on cattle. In fact,
Read full poem →wher, vers, aw, els, don, ey, ly, so written in 1645, take on in 1673 an
e mute, while words like harpe, windes, onely, lose it. By a reciprocal
change ayr and cipress become air and cypress; and the vowels in daign,
Read full poem →—“Who saves his life shall lose it, friends!”
Outspake the preacher then,