take up the slack

When the other kids were on the way, Step had been home to take up the slack.

But until he does, you're going to have to take up the slack.

And young players are waiting to take up the slack.

Particularly when there is no one to take up the slack.

This would be fine if someone else were taking up the slack.

But why aren't there more like him to take up the slack?

Although I was not at my best, there were others to take up the slack.

But sales to the West will not come close to taking up the slack.

When you want to return take up the slack and follow the line.

So there's somebody else out there taking up the slack.

"I was taking up the slack for the people who didn't come to work that morning," she said.

The churches have to take up the slack in our society.

It is not clear, however, if other agencies are taking up the slack.

Where is the private sector to take up the slack and provide them?

It will be interesting to see whether the internet can take up the slack.

So he has looked to the local authorities and private business to take up the slack.

All you need to do is cut interest rates, so that private spending takes up the slack.

Without a ball game of some kind to take up the slack in the conversation, men don't seem to have a lot to talk about.

The assistant position might never be filled, he said, because others can take up the slack.

Women of the county took up the slack on the farms.

But the Chinese have taken up the slack and promise huge growth.

He added that the local police forces would be hard pressed to take up the slack.

That's all well and good, but who do you suppose will have to take up the slack?

In the shorter forms others can take up the slack.

No one is, and when they go down, the rest of us have to find some way to take up the slack."