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(transitive) To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in. / To divulge one's inner thoughts to (someone), making oneself emotionally vulnerable to them; to open up to (someone).

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let in

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transitive UK obsolete slang

Japanese Meaning

（人や物）が中へ入るのを許す、入ることを認める / （相手に）心の内を打ち明ける、自己開示する

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Please let in the cat before it starts to rain.

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雨が降り出す前に猫を家の中に入れてください。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.

Sense（2）

To divulge one's inner thoughts to (someone), making oneself emotionally vulnerable to them; to open up to (someone).

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Sense（3）

(transitive, Oxford University slang) To associate with.

He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before "letting in" with any of them.

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