mellow out

Idioms  

1. Become genial or pleasant, calm down, relax, as in The teacher mellowed out when they explained what had happened. This expression uses mellow in the sense of “ripening,” with the connotation of softness and sweetness. [Slang; late 1900s]

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mellow out

This makes hemp feed a potential tool to mellow out cattle during transportation, weaning, and other stressful situations, he says.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 14, 2022

Maybe victory will mellow out Gov. John Dutton.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

Meg: I definitely had to mellow out as a mom.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2021

But here the song also felt happily defiant, a refusal to mellow out no matter the setting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2016

That is what makes this aging-of-the-population theory of crime reduction so appealingly tidy: since people mellow out as they get older, more older people must lead to less crime.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Related Words

• acquiesce
• capitulate
• cave in
• come around
• comply
• ease off
• give in
• give up
• let go
• quit
• relax
• slacken
• soften
• subside