slack away
1slack away — To ease off freely • • • Main Entry: ↑slack …
2Slack water — Slack water, or slack tide, is the period during which no appreciable tidal current flows in a body of water. Slack water usually happens near high tide and low tide, and occurs when the direction of the tidal current reverses.… …
3slack off — verb become less in amount or intensity The storm abated The rain let up after a few hours • Syn: ↑abate, ↑let up, ↑slack, ↑die away • Derivationally related forms: ↑letup …
4slack — adj 1. loose, not tight, not taut, not rigid or firm, lax, hanging, drooping, droopy, bagging, baggy, sagging, saggy, flapping, Inf. floppy; limp, Dial. limpsy, flabby, flaccid; relaxed, flexible, pliant. 2. remiss, negligent, neglectful,… …
5slack off — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To become or cause to become less active or intense: abate, bate, die (away, down, off, or out), ease (off or up), ebb, fall, fall off, lapse, let up, moderate, remit, slacken, subside, wane. See INCREASE. II verb… …
6Clayton K. Slack — Clayton Slack Born February 23, 1896(1896 02 23) …
7die away — verb become less in amount or intensity (Freq. 2) The storm abated The rain let up after a few hours • Syn: ↑abate, ↑let up, ↑slack off, ↑slack • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
8Murder of Laree Slack — Laree A. Slack (July 4, 1989 – November 11, 2001) was the victim of child abuse that led to her death. She was whipped with an inch thick section of rubberized electrical cable filled with strands of wire [1] repeatedly [2] and died from internal …
9To take away — Take Take, v. t. [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken} (t[=a]k n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands …
10sell in May and go away — A saying relating originally to the cycle of activity on the London Stock Exchange. May, shortly after the start of the financial year, was a busy time, but during the following months a bear market prevailed as trading was slack and Londoners… …
