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go easy

  1. Act or proceed with caution, as in Go easy moving that bookcase , or Go easy on the subject of layoffs . [Late 1800s] Also see easy does it ; take it easy .

  2. ; go light on . Use sparingly, as in Go easy with the makeup; a little lipstick is enough , or Go light on the salt . [ Colloquial ; early 1900s]



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“Go easy with the salt, since the feta itself is salty as can be. But be brave with the black pepper — floral and kicky, it’s a wonderful match for spring fruit.”

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William Buzbee, a professor at Georgetown Law, told Reuters that the Musk-Ramaswamy interpretation of recent cases is "very confused," and that while Trump has latitude to ask agencies to "go easy" on enforcement, neither court decision restricts federal agency powers as much as Musk and Ramaswamy might wish.

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In the context of a post–Jan. 6 world where democracy is really teetering and you don’t want to have rulings from the Supreme Court that encourage corruption, my presumption had been that if they were mindful of that context they might come to the conclusion that maybe this is not the time to go easy on corruption.

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When he came to us, Barbara Beck and I were told to go easy on this new guy they were bringing in.

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“It’s not like we won a championship and now we’re going to go easy. I like that we still want to compete and we still want to be better.”

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