letting slide
Choosing not to address
Letting slide means allowing something to pass without comment, correction, or consequence.
You might let slide a minor error, an insult, or a lapse in standards—choosing not to address it: I'll let that remark slide this time.
The phrase suggests deliberate tolerance or overlooking, often implying you could have intervened but chose not to.
- neglectFailure to provide care
- looking the other wayDeliberately ignoring wrongdoing
- defermentAuthorized delay of obligation
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- passivityState of non-resistance
abdication · forgiveness · reprieve · complacency · acquiescence · leaving out · laissez-faire · let · turning a blind eye · turning a deaf ear · permissiveness · avoidance · missing out · leniency · letting off easy · patience · brushing off · procrastination
- Excusingjustifying, forgiving, pardoning, condoning, rationalizing
- suppressionrepression, inhibition, restraint, silencing, muzzling
- idlenessdoing nothing, idling, loafing, lounging, lazing
- complianceaudit, obeying, policy, compliance officer, regulation
- negligenceneglect, gross negligence, criminal negligence, medical negligence, negligence
- Incomplete Actionsunfinished, partial, halfway, midway, interrupted
letting slideconfronting
Addressing directly
calling out · holding accountable · addressing · tackling · taking to task
letting slidecracking down
Enforcing more strictly
enforcing · holding to account · coming down hard · zero tolerance · throwing the book at
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