Sentence examples for cut him slack from inspiring English sources
"Voters cut him slack they don't cut the rest of us," Willie Brown said.
(After 40 distinguished years in an organization, one may cut him slack on a snit).
And I do cut him slack to an extent: I certainly don't think he should be summarily excommunicated from the left because he has been guilty of sexist behaviour, like his recent appearance on an MSNBC show.
It would be antithetical to the Hitchens spirit to cut him slack just because I like him (he's been a friend of my wife's for many years, and his alcohol-propelled conversation is a captivating form of performance art) or because he is dying of cancer.
The critique of Deasy by many teachers and administrators — and their unions — is that he has made ever-increasing, unrealistic and demoralizing demands that make them less inclined to cut him slack on his data points.
Clinton has a similar political impetus to discuss race, while Obama quietly signaled to black voters in 2008 and 2012 that, as a black candidate, they should cut him slack in having to address race-specific issues.
