Anyways, to cut someone some slack means to make additional allowances for them, give them a little more freedom, relax the usual rules, give someone a second chance, etc.
This saying is perhaps nautical in origin, deriving from using ropes to tie a ship to a pier. “Tying a ship to a pier”, according to HarbourGuides.com, “was no easy feat and took two teams of men armed with mooring lines. As one line was pulled to haul the ship closer the other line was released or ‘given slack’. The process would go on until the ship was properly aligned.”
Slack, you see, is opposite to tight. In order for the rope to be tightened at one end, the rope need be slack on the other end.
Perhaps this is how it should be with everything. If you’re tight and strict with yourself, it’s perhaps good for you to relax a bit once in a while. If you stay intense all the time, you may snap like a rope.
If, for example, you are what they call a model worker who never misses work, you may call in sick once or twice in a year. Your boss might allow you to stay home no question asked because he knows, for one thing, you’re not lying. In this case, he’s able to cut you some slack.
If, on the other hand, you call in sick every week, your boss may not be so sympathetic. In this case, the extenuating circumstances are gone. Thing is, you’re already as slack as a flimsy rope on the floor, how can you expect anyone to cut you any more slack? I mean, how much more relaxed do you want to be?
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