Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Loose

Loose as … negligence.
—James Cawthorn

Loose as the stubble in the field.
—George Croly

Loose as a vine-branch blowing in the morn.
—Austin Dobson

Loose as the wrapper of a two-for-fiver.
—O. Henry

Loose as Cossack pantaloons.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Loose as eggs in a nest.
—Walter Savage Landor

Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
—William Shakespeare

Loose as the flame that flutters on the grate.
—Alexander Smith

Loose, like a Comet’s refluent tresses, hung her heavenly hair dispersed.
—Robert Southey

Loose as the petals of roses discrowned.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Loose as the breeze that plays along the downs.
—James Thomson

The reins loose as flying ribbons.
—Lewis Wallace

Loose as a cloud-wreath on the sky.
—John Greenleaf Whittier