Why don't you give me the dry facts and let my imagination do what it can?
Better to just have nothing there, and let the buyer's imagination fill the gap, maybe with a piece she already had.
He sat back, frowning, angry with himself for letting his imagination run away with him.
You should let your imagination loose, work by gut feel for a while.
Or do you go for something more abstract and let the audience's imagination do the rest?
Something where I can let my imagination go, that's all I care about.
Once he started doing that, it would be far too easy to let his imagination run away with him, dreaming up all sorts of disasters.
He had let his foolish imagination run away with his thoughts.
"He wasn't letting his imagination and after-events paint a picture for him."
So Dave let his imagination grow upon a groundwork of fact.