loosen up (someone)

to behave in a relaxed, informal way.

Slowly she began to loosen up and, by the second semester, she was making friends with her classmates.

The question was supposed to loosen people up and chase away their anxieties.

• sow wild oats
• sow your wild oats
• space cadet
• spare blushes
• spare no effort to
• spare no effort to do something
• spare no expense
• spare someone's blushes
• spark plug
• sparks fly
• speak for
• speak for itself
• speak for someone
• speak for something
• speak for themselves
• speak for yourself
• speaking as
• speaking as someone
• speaking of
• speaking of something
• speak mind
• speak of
• speak of the devil
• speak out
• speak out of turn