let down easy

Idioms  

1. see under let someone down.

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Example Sentences

"It's tough losing game after game. I'm just giving it my all. The team believes. That's the part I like most. They're fighters and won't let down easy."

From Los Angeles Times

I wanted a chance to think over the horrible thing Maisie Ann had told me; time to cook up some scheme by which the boss could be let down easy.

From Project Gutenberg

As it is she is let down easy with a headache, whereat no one can wonder.

From Project Gutenberg

After a little time Jack let down easy on the man, thinking he might be of some service some day, and later the visitor departed, carrying his mortification and defeat in his memory.

From Project Gutenberg

They were let down easy for their day’s escapade, and except for colds more or less bad, and a decidedly augmented bill at the end of the term to pay for a new “Eliza,” as well as a regulation forbidding all sea voyages of whatever kind, they suffered no further punishment than the lessons of the day itself.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• disconcert
• mortify