hair down?

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In a text about a less rigorous book by some well-known thinker the author says that this text "lets us see him with his hair down". Is this a known idiom? Does it simply mean what it seems to mean or is there something special to be understood here?

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Originally Posted by okok

In a text about a less rigorous book by some well-known thinker the author says that this text "lets us see him with his hair down". Is this a known idiom? Does it simply mean what it seems to mean or is there something special to be understood here?

to let your hair down, relax, be at ease

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Thank you