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Today's expression, oh, I like it.

It's a phrasal verb to slack up.

Now, we studied slacking off.

We studied a slacker.

But what does it mean to slack up? You should slack up.

You need to slack up.

Perhaps I ought to slack up. Perhaps I ought to slack up. This is a great expression. And I think it comes from perhaps a cowboy, I'm guessing, or maybe not just a cowboy, maybe a guy who rode camels, or maybe a guy who used cows to plow his field but the idea is to

slack up to slack up means to be nice to not be so hard so once, go back to a cowboy.

You're riding a horse.

And where do you keep your hands?

You keep your hands on this basically leather rope.

And that rope is attached to the horse's mouth.

So if you pull on the horse's mouth, it means something.

So if you pull really tight, it means the horse must go faster and faster and faster.

So if you pull on the rope, there's a lot of tension.

It means go harder, go harder, go harder. So if you slack up,

you release the tension, everything is relaxed, and there's no more pressure. Now sometimes your boss

might be working you very hard.

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