cut somebody some slack Idiom, Proverb

cut me some slack

give me more time, give me more freedom You may be asking too much of your son. Cut him some slack.

slackass

lazy person, lazy bones Larry, you slackass, get over here and help us load the truck!

take up the slack

do somebody's work, fill in When I'm away, Hal takes up the slack. He does my job.

slack off

Idiom(s): slack off (2)

Theme: DIMINISHING

2. to become less active; to become lazy or inefficient.
• Near the end of the school year, Sally began to slack off, and her grades showed it.
• John got fired for slacking off during the busy season.

Cut someone some slack

To relax a rule or make an allowance, as in allowing someone more time to finish something.

slack off|slack

v. phr. 1. To become less active; grow lazy. Since construction work has been slacking off toward the end of the summer, many workers were dismissed. 2. To gradually reduce; taper off. The snowstorms tend to slack off over the Great Lakes by the first of April.

slack

slack
1.
cut someone some slack
Slang to be less demanding of someone; ease up on someone
2.
slack off
to slacken
3.
slack up
to go more slowly

cut somebody some ˈslack

(informal, especially American English) accomplish things easier than accepted for somebody; acquiesce somebody added abandon to do things than they would commonly have: I apperceive I fabricated a mistake, but it’s my aboriginal anniversary on the job, so cut me some slack, OK?Learn more: cut, slack, somebody

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