cut loose from

cut (someone or something) loose from (something)

1. To free or remove someone or something from something, often by literally cutting. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cut" and "loose." Luckily, the rescue crew was able to cut the girl loose from her wrecked car and save her life. When the hook got caught, we had to cut it loose from the net.
2. To remove someone from a group or organization of some kind. We had to cut Greg loose from the study group—he just wasn't doing the work. We've had to cut a few people loose from the staff this year to reduce costs.
See also: cut, loose
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cut someone or something loose from something

to sever the connection between people or things, in any combination. Wally cut the child loose from the tree where his playmates had tied him up. I cut the cord loose from the anchor by mistake.
See also: cut, loose
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

break/cut/tear (something) ˈloose from somebody/something

separate yourself or somebody/something from a group of people or their influence, etc: The organization broke loose from its sponsors. He cut himself loose from his family.
See also: break, cut, loose, somebody, something, tear
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • add in
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • all right
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • (you've) got to get up pretty early in the morning to (do something)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
References in classic literature
Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut loose from their fish and returned to the ship in good time.
Moby Dick I LXVII
Mnemic homophony gives us, without the addition of other processes of thought, a picture of our friend X which is in a certain sense abstract, not the concrete in any one situation, but X cut loose from any particular point of time.
The Analysis of Mind
As soon as the last good-bys were said, and the steamer had cut loose from the wharf, the load of care, anxiety, and responsibility which I had carried for eighteen years began to lift itself from my shoulders at the rate, it seemed to me, of a pound a minute.
Up From Slavery
Trained by Dicky and managed his monstrous mother, Alice Melissa Leo), Micky accepts lacklustre fights for scant rewards he is persuaded to cut loose from his loved ones and punch above his weight for the first time.
WATCH IT
Trained by Dicky and managed by his monstrous mother, Alice (Melissa Leo), Micky accepts lacklustre fights for scant rewards until he is persuaded to cut loose from his loved ones and punch above his weight for the first time.
WATCH IT
Morales, this year's Ronda Pilipinas champion, cut loose from the peloton early with six other riders before bolting out of the lead pack in the 20-minute mark.
Morales rules Canada bike race
His first objective is to cut loose from the pack and hope things did get messy in behind.
Ladbrokes Gold Cup Verdict
Now, Abe needs to admit his mistakes to the government and people of China, cut loose from the past and make a new start," he said.
China anger at Abe war shrine visit
"One reason may well be that people sense that our world has cut loose from its moorings in Christian values and in a belief in a good God."
Praise over big rush to church
The duo insisted that the 2005 edition will go ahead even if they are cut loose from Telefilm and SODEC funding.
Montreal World Film Festival (8/26-9/6/04)
Cut loose from the fabric of time by his experience of the allied bombing of Dresden in World War II, Pilgrim flashes to different moments of his life and queries imaginary aliens about the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life.
Slaughterhouse-Five. (McCormick's Quick Takes)
The 40-foot barge had been cut loose from its moorings near O'Dwyer Bridge on the River Abbey in Limerick City.
Panic after argy-bargy at marina
Unlike many of her CEO colleagues, when the seas of turmoil and change were threatening to sink NPC, Teresa never once cut loose from the anchor of those beliefs and their corresponding values.
Dear Editor
Cut loose from social value and self-improvement, Verburg and Moore's rest becomes mysterious and beautiful, the most ordinary thing in the world and the last thing we'd be caught doing in public.
JoAnn Verburg
Climber George Oconer cut loose from the speeding pack in the final 11 kilometers to rule the qualifying race of the 2017 LBC Ronda Pilipinas yesterday.
Oconer tops q'fying race