• pick up the slack | take up the slack
1-to provide or do something that is missing or not getting done - 메리엄 웹스터
-To take up the slack or pick up the slack means to do or provide something that another person or organization is no longer doing or providing. - 콜린스
-To do an extra amount of work that someone else is unable or unwilling to do. - 프리
-to improve a situation by doing something that someone else has not done or not completed - 캠브릿지
-to do the work that someone else has stopped doing but still needs to be done: - 캠브릿지
-to do the things that someone else is not able or willing to do - 맥밀란 (2)
-to do something that needs to be done because someone else is no longer doing it - 롱맨 (2)
: 부족한 것을 벌충하다, 부족한 것을 보충하다, 모자란 곳을 채워주다, 남의 일을 대신하다[남의 일을 대신하거나 떠안는 것, 밀린 일을 처리하는 것 등]
e.g.)
The manager has to take up the slack when employees don't do their jobs correctly.
When he didn't get the pay raise he was expecting, he had to take another job to pick up the slack for more money.
As major airlines give up less-traveled routes, smaller planes are picking up the slack.
I'm going to need you to pick up the slack around the house when the baby arrives, because I'm going to literally have my hands full.
The fourth member of our team has been totally unreliable, so the rest of us have had to pick up the slack.
I'm going to need you to take up the slack around the house when the baby arrives, because I'm going to literally have my hands full.
The fourth member of our team has been totally unreliable, so the rest of us have had to take up the slack.
With our best player injured, other players have to pick up the slack.
If Sue gets a job, Mike will have to take up the slack at home.
If you guys don't pick up the slack, we will continue to work even after our shifts.
만약 너네들이 밀린 일 다 안하면, 우리는 근무교대 이후에도 계속 일하게 될 거야.
Why should their colleagues have to pick up the slack?
2-to improve the way money or people are used in an organization - 옥스포드
-to improve an organization or system by using people, equipment, and money in a more effective way - 맥밀란 (2)
-to make a system or organization as efficient as possible by making sure that money, space, or people are fully used - 롱맨 (1)
: 기강을 바로잡다
e.g.)
Without another contract to help pick up the slack, employees may face job losses.
3-to pull on a rope, etc. until it is tight - 옥스포드
-to pull a rope so that it is no longer loose - 맥밀란 (3)
-to make a rope tighter - 롱맨 (3)
: (밧줄 등을) 단단히 죄다
e.g.)
We took up the slack and then pulled as hard as we could.
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