make allowance for

Idioms  

1. Also, make allowances for. Take into account extenuating circumstances, as in We have to make allowance for Jeff; he's very new to the business, or Grandma is always making allowances for the children's bad manners. [c. 1700]

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Example Sentences

But we all must make allowance for his newfound “strong focus” on the coronavirus, which Trump is fighting with every tool in his golf bag: not just irons and wedges, but putters, drivers and fairway woods.

From Washington Post

When this happens, it’s often useful to heed Rudyard Kipling’s advice: “Trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.”

From Nature

Most would have accepted Frappart’s penalty call as understandable five years ago; now, with a mechanism in place that has been proselytized as a guarantee of accuracy failing to live up to its billing, there is no need to make allowance for human error.

From New York Times

Duckworth accepts the method is not foolproof, particularly because it cannot make allowance for the identity of players still to bat after a rain delay.

From Seattle Times

The Georgetown study didn’t make allowance for light- and dark-skinned African American children, but my guess is that lighter-skinned and mixed-race children – like myself and Ella – are probably perceived as being slightly more innocent than darker-skinned children, thanks to colourism.

From The Guardian

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