slack

1. (uncountable)The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.

   the slack of a rope or of a sail

   take in the slack

   Schlacke

   слабина́slabiná, у́гольная пы́льúgolʹnaja pýlʹ

2. (countable, uncountable)A dip in a surface.

3. (countable, uncountable)In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.

   Marsch, Senke

4. (countable)A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.

5. (uncountable)Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.

6. A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.

7. (countable)A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.

8. A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.

9. (uncountable)Small coal; coal dust.

   dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve

1. We need to cut Tom some slack.

   Нам потрібно дати Тому поблажку.

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2. Tom didn't cut Mary any slack.

   ruТом не давал Мэри ни единой поблажки.

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3. You should cut Tom some slack.

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4. Why don't you cut Tom some slack?

   deWarum bist du bei Tom nicht etwas nachsichtig?

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5. Why don't we cut Tom some slack?

   ruПочему бы нам не быть снисходительней к Тому?

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