get slack
Frequency: 7.09.5 per million words
To start being lazy or not careful enough (more informal).
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Examples (10)
- If you get slack with your training, you'll lose your fitness.
- The team started to get slack after they won the first match.
- Don't get slack just because the deadline is far away.
- He tends to get slack on his responsibilities when he's tired.
- We need to make sure we don't get slack in our security procedures.
- When the project got tough, some members of the team started to get slack.
- It's easy to get slack during the holidays if you're not careful.
- The manager warned them not to get slack or complacent.
- If you get slack with your diet, you'll gain weight.
- The coach told the players not to get slack during practice.