Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

On the Loose

Dissolute (which is dis-sohitus). “Living on the loose” is leading a dissolute life, or cut on the spree.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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