let someone down easy
let someone down gently

How about it, you going to let me down easy?

He did his best to let her down easy but she'd been hurt.

But Mary, a good part of her mind on other things, let him down easy.

Don't know, Major, think perhaps he lie to let you down easy.

Think of the other buffer, and let him down easy.

I have to think of some way to let them down easy."

Oh, he'd softened it by saying for a while, but she knew he was just trying to let her down easy.

He finally got his memory back and let Julia down easy.

You're challenged to let people down easy or to get them to join you instead.

She was even letting him down easy, making sure he didn't stay angry at her.

Let it down easy," she heard one of them say. "

But I was trying to let her down easy.

Face to face means you want to let me down easy.

Zack called, and I thought he was calling to let me down easy.

Don't try to move yet-I want to let you down easy before that.

He wanted to let Lincoln down easy if he could.

But she let him down easy, asking, "Is it ice yet?"

"It got to the point where you're like, come on, either tell me you want to have another date, or just let me down easy."

You're just trying to let me down easy," he said, and then more thoughtfully, "though I guess you did get the breaks at that.

"We tried to let him down easy, saying we weren't talking about anything interesting, but he wouldn't take the hint."

Dennis admits that he has feelings for Gray, but she lets him down easy.

It lets you down easy, and pulls you up easier!

You let him down easy, and I'll let him take it out on me.

"This operation was set up with one man in mind, and more would only complicate things," he said, letting Alexander down easy.

Jones is confronting life-and-death issues, but she's letting you down easy, too.

Whatever I might say to try and let her down gently would never be enough.

After the mission was over, he'd have to find a way to let her down gently.

Apparently it wasn't going to be difficult to let her down gently.

Either he met someone else and is letting her down gently, or the relationship just ran its course.

He wondered whether she was searching her feelings, or looking for a way to let him down gently.

He had tried to let her down gently and had failed.

He lets her down gently, but she says, "Keep me posted if your situation changes."

Once you wake up, I'll help you find a way to let him down gently.

They let themselves down gently if the power fails.

She lets men down gently, in a voice like smoke and maple syrup.

But if he's successful I can let him down gently and maneuver him off to some other woman.

Eight words precisely: 'I hope he will let us down gently.'

If only he could let her down gently.

When I unwisely feigned knowledge of the game, he let me down gently.

Brennan let him down gently and sat back on his heels, blinking rapidly.

I'm trying to reprogram the device to let everyone down gently, but it's not being very cooperative.

The Navigational Officer was clearly trying to let them down gently.

He let her down gently into a seat on the Romulan shuttlecraft.

He prepares to let her down gently, but Bailey admits to sending the messages.

They ask him to call Murray posing as a record company executive and let him down gently.

Branagh took him out for breakfast to let him down gently.

If you're going to let someone down gently, Upton certainly knows how, calling the video "so flattering."

They were silly plans, she considered, but she could have refused nicely, let him down gently.

Zeke tries to let Sophie down gently, but he manages to upset her.

Chaney might talk glibly about letting him down gently, but it wouldn't be that easy.