cut sb some slack
informalto not judge someone as severely as you usually would because they are having problems at the present time:
"Andrew's late again." "Cut him some slack - his wife just had a baby."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making & accepting apologies
- absolution
- afraid
- atonement
- conciliate
- cut
- excuse
- excuse/pardon my French! idiom
- forge
- if you'll pardon the expression idiom
- make it up to sb idiom
- mend
- mend your fences idiom
- overlook
- pardon (me) idiom
- recompense
- reconcile
- reconciliation
- repentant
- take sb back
- unrepentant
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