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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Example Sentences

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

While they’re delicious cooked, raw ones can retain their crispness and mellow out at the same time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2019

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