Idiom
call off the dogs
Meaning
To ease up on after inflicting great punishment.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please call off the dogs and stop criticizing me.”
“The manager realized the employee had learned his lesson and decided to call off the dogs.”
“After the intense public investigation had effectively ruined the company's reputation, the regulators finally called off the dogs to allow for a period of restructuring.”
Examples
simple
“Please call off the dogs and stop criticizing me.”
contextual
“The manager realized the employee had learned his lesson and decided to call off the dogs.”
complex
“After the intense public investigation had effectively ruined the company's reputation, the regulators finally called off the dogs to allow for a period of restructuring.”
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