All-hang-out
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent. attributive
"Although The Human Voice parody in Law of Desire was a funny conceit, all out of control and frantic nervousness, Women on the Verge shows Almodóvar to be in tight form, the laughs emerging from a skilled manipulation of the farce structure rather than all-hang-out anarchism of Matador or Law of Desire."
Example
More examples"Although The Human Voice parody in Law of Desire was a funny conceit, all out of control and frantic nervousness, Women on the Verge shows Almodóvar to be in tight form, the laughs emerging from a skilled manipulation of the farce structure rather than all-hang-out anarchism of Matador or Law of Desire."
Etymology
From the phrase let it all hang out.
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