stretch a point
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Though they may stretch a point, or all the points, comic impersonators do the same, with a twist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2015
And why should he stretch a point to please Congress?
From Economist ● Jun. 19, 2014
However, since the Tenno did sit upon what amounted to a chair, one may stretch a point and call the occasion his Enthronement.
From Time Magazine Archive
To stretch a point or two, Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous indignation at the power politics played behind his back.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Nothing very serious, I think," replied the captain, for he had been through such cases before, and he knew that harbor masters were disposed to stretch a point wherever possible.
From The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils by Frank V. Webster
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