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They are all OK, LS. The only one I would quibble with is #4: the style ('I will...no..') is overly formal for the casual idiom ('cut...slack').
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| Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:41 am usage of the idiom "cut somebody some slack" |
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Thank you, MM !
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| Sat Dec 01, 2007 18:54 pm usage of the idiom "cut somebody some slack" |
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| Could you please explain to me the meaning of "to cut someone some slack"? I read the examples above, and looked it up on the Internet but I don't understand it! Could you give me some other common examples where this idiom is used? |
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| Sat Dec 01, 2007 19:00 pm usage of the idiom "cut somebody some slack" |
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It means, to go easy on someone, not to reprimand someone too harsh for his faults/mistakes
A good example of its usage is in the song "what happened to you" by the offpring. The song is about a guy who is rebuking the other guy for his excessive drinking:
| Quote: | I might be sympathetic, or cut a little slack
I thought that you were willing to give a little back
But you do it in the morning, you do it in the night
You lie to refrain from just facing your life
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I just heard it on that song and it was so unusual to me and after looking it up I was wondering how to use it in a sentence until MM cleared my doubts
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