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lose yourself (in something)

to stop worrying about yourself by giving attention to something else Out on the golf course, you can lose yourself and forget everything else in the world. You can reduce stress by losing yourself in the pages of a good book.

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• blow lunch
• blow one’s doughnuts
• blow one’s lunch
• fall out of favor
• get one's bearings
• have all one's buttons
• heads or tails
• it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye
• it's swings and roundabouts
• keep one's cool
• keep one's head
• keep track
• Lend your money and lose your friend
• lose
• lose (one's) bearings
• lose (one's) bottle
• lose (one's) buttons
• lose (one's) cherry
• lose (one's) faith (in something or someone)
• lose (one's) footing
• lose (one's) shit
• lose (one's) spirit
• lose (one's)/the way
• lose a bundle
• lose all one’s marbles
• lose appetite
• lose at
• lose by
• lose contact with
• lose cool
• lose count of
• lose edge
• lose face
• lose favor
• lose grip
• lose ground
• lose ground to
• lose head
• lose heart
• lose heart to
• lose hold on
• lose in
• lose it
• lose marbles
• lose mind
• lose money on
• lose nerve
• lose no time (in) doing (something)
• lose one’s cool
• lose one’s doughnuts
• lose one’s grip
• lose one’s hold
• lose one’s lunch
• lose one’s marbles
• lose one’s shirt
• lose one's bearings
• lose one's buttons
• lose one's cool
• lose one's grip
• lose one's head
• lose one's hear to
• lose one's lunch
• lose one's marbles
• lose one's mind
• lose one's nerve
• lose one's shirt
• lose one's temper
• lose one's touch
• lose oneself in
• lose out
• lose out on
• lose out to
• lose patience
• lose rag
• lose reason
• lose shirt
• lose sight of
• lose sleep
• lose sleep over
• lose some amount of time
• lose temper
• lose the number of (one's) mess
• lose the plot
• lose the thread
• lose the use of
• lose time
• lose to
• lose tongue
• lose touch
• lose touch with reality
• lose trace of
• lose track
• lose train of thought
• miss out
• no time to lose
• stand to lose
• tale never loses in the telling
• There's no time to lose
• use it or lose it
• what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts
• Win a few, lose a few
• win some, lose some
• You cannot lose what you never had
• You can't win 'em all
• You must lose a fly to catch a trout
• you snooze, you lose
• You win some, you lose some