on the loose | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Notincarceratedor incaptivity; not undercontrol.2022April 19, Skeeter, “Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ?Racial Equity?”, inrec.sport.pro-wrestling‎[1](Usenet):Went to a bongo party completely by mistake / there were coons and thugs and fat sheboons with all the pavement apes / When I got to the bongo party, it smelled of jenkem juice / someone left the cave door open, there were chimpson the loose.; (slang,archaic)Out on aspree, or in search ofadventure.1851,Henry Mayhew,London Labour and the London Poor, published1861:Sometimes he dispensed water to men who “looked as if they had beenon the looseall night.”; (slang,archaic)Earning a living byprostitution.1851,Henry Mayhew,London Labour and the London Poor, published1861:Those who have had good nursing, and all that, and the advantages of a sound education, who have a position to lose, prospects to blight, and relations to dishonour, may be blamed for goingon the loose, but I’ll be hanged if I think that priest or moralist is to come down on me with the sledge-hammer of their denunciation.1868,The Indian Medical Gazette, volume 3, page21:Many doctors practising in large cities dwell on the difficulty of checking clandestine prostitution, which is unfortunately on the increase in all crowded centres, where numbers of women areon the loose, over whom the police have little or no hold.

Examples:

EN: That young man on the loose--
ES: - No hay tiempo para juegos.
EN: I was about to remark, myself, with Drummond on the loose, we might do well to move to some other part of the country, taking Travers with us, of course.
ES: Drummond anda suelto. Quizá deberíamos salir del país. Nos iríamos con Travers, por supuesto.
EN: Just two gals on the loose.
ES: Seamos sólo dos chicas sueltas.
EN: You start on the loose when you left home.
ES: Te echaste a perder al irte de casa.
EN: The police warned he was on the loose, drinking again.
ES: La policía avisó de que anda por ahí, otra vez empinando el codo.
EN: This Joe is on the loose.
ES: Joe te ha dejado.
EN: So he's on the loose?
ES: ¿Está libre?
EN: There are animals on the loose!
ES: ¡Hay animales sueltos!
EN: You're not on the loose, are you, Blackie?
ES: No estarás solo, ¿verdad, Blackie?
EN: Sure, sure, I'm always on the loose.
ES: Sí, claro, siempre estoy libre.
EN: Thought it too dangerous with Hannay on the loose... he's warning the whole 39 steps.
ES: Demasiado peligroso con Hannay suelto... está avisando a los 39 Escalones.
EN: No thanks Horace, in me you see a youth who is completely on the loose.
ES: No, gracias Horace. Tienes ante ti un hombre libre.
EN: And now Yellow Hand's on the loose with his Cheyenne.
ES: Y ahora Mano Amarilla y sus cheyenes están desenfrenados.
EN: That miserable dependent of haberdashery... he is the most dangerous madman who is on the loose.
ES: Ese mísero dependiente de mercería es el loco más peligroso que anda suelto.
EN: I'm on the loose.
ES: No.

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