He also thanked Murray, "who had no reason to do it other than cutting a young comedian a break".
cutting yourself a break.
By using the passive voice in the last stretch of that sentence, I'm cutting him a break.
In this environment, no one is cutting anyone a break for childcare or anything else, for that matter.
Rising above the squabbling, the German chancellor threw Alexis Tsipras, Greece's embattled Prime Minister, a lifeline, attending this week's high-level mini-summit, which excluded some of the smaller countries that are most opposed to cutting Greece a break.
"The Bush administration, in some sense following the leads of three previous administrations, has repeatedly supported a federal sentencing system that is distinctly disrespectful of the very arguments that Bush has put forward in cutting Libby a break," said Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University who writes the blog Sentencing Law and Policy.
We're going to place a valuation on my tweetstream, and I'm -- Hang on, hang on -- I'm going to begin by cutting you a break and rounding my stream off to 4000 tweets, although it actually holds considerably more than that.
Do yourself a favor and realize this: The school is cutting you a break here.
Not satisfied with just cutting a check, Avicii took a break from his 26-city tour to meet -- and help -- some of the people in New York City that his sold-out concerts are benefitting.
(Asked why she thought she had been chosen, Ms. Kowroski says, "I think Susan saw me cutting up during a break").
It's Eurovision time – and even though it's hard to imagine the judges ignoring the Brexity elephant in the room and cutting the UK a break, the usual daft fun is guaranteed.
