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to let go and let God

to let go and let God

1 9.1
Give up control and trust God or a higher power
  • idiom
: dejar ir y confiar en Dios
  • Or what if it's, you know, you don't do that, you just surrender, you just let go and let God you just allow.

I don't know why, but I feel like you just have to let go and let God.

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Examples

  • You have to put limits up as they pertain to yourself and for whatever is their business, you let go and let God honestly.

    The Financial Diet

  • I I'm not in control, you know, let go and let God, you know.

  • I just can't believe how when you let go and let God things change.

  • Sometimes you've just got to let go and let God take care of it.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Or what if it's, you know, you don't do that, you just surrender, you just let go and let God you just allow.

    Evan Carmichael

  • When life gets overwhelming, sometimes you just need to let go and let God to find peace.

  • In tough times, she always remembers to let go and let God, trusting that everything will work out.

  • During the challenging moments, we must let go and let God guide us forward.

Antonyms

to interfere
487 3.5

To get involved in a situation and make things not work as they should

to take control
227 3.5

Start to have power and make decisions about something

How Trusting

to let go and let God
1 9.1
to accept
∞ 3.5
to let go
381 3.7
to stay in control
  • US
264 3.7

Surface Forms

let go and let God infinitive
let go and let God past
let go and let God past participle
letting go and letting God present participle
lets go and let God third person singular

Morphology

let + go + and + let + God

The segment 'let go' is fairly compositional and would likely be understood by a B1 learner as releasing or relinquishing control, but the continuation 'let God' depends on cultural/religious knowledge to interpret as 'entrust the situation to a higher power' rather than a purely literal permission. Because part of the phrase is transparent while the key transfer-of-control-to-God meaning requires extra cultural/pragmatic knowledge, the overall expression is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Let go and let God comes from Christian prayer and from recovery groups. Picture holding a rope and opening your hand so someone stronger can take it — you let go and you let God, so the phrase means 'give up control and trust a higher power'.