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Phrase(s): ease off (on someone or something) [and] ease up (on someone or something)
to reduce the urgency with which one deals with someone or something; to put less pressure on someone or something. • Ease off on John. He has been yelled at enough today. • Yes, please ease off. I can’t stand any more. • Tell them to ease up on the horses. They are getting tired., Phrase(s): ease off (from someone or something)
to move away from someone or something, slowly and carefully. • Ease off carefully from the deer, so you don’t frighten it. • Ease off quietly., Phrase(s): ease off
[for something] to diminish. • The rain began to ease off. • The storm seems to have eased off a little.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs