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pick/take up the slack (American & Australian informal)

to do the work which someone else has stopped doing, but which still needs to be done When Sue starts going out to work each day, Bob and the kids will have to take up the slack and help more at home.

See cut some slack

See also: pick, slack, up

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On balance, this looks to be a reflection of the same dynamic we have seen throughout the apparent economic recovery of recent months: companies are restocking, all the while cutting costs and shedding jobs, which boosts relative output readings but says very little about the sustainability of the rebound once government stimulus is withdrawn and private demand (increasingly ravaged by unemployment as it is) has to step in and pick up the slack. New Zealand Service Sector Expands For Second Month But Sales Decline by Mena Report This is precisely the moment when we need Washington to pick up the slack. A survey by the Federal Reserve finds about one-third of banks have ... by Set-Aside Alert Is the Mayor trying to inspire the private sector to pick up the slack, or is he sending the Democrats a message, or has Howard Dean already decided to go to Denver? Bloomberg Shoos Away Howard Dean by Observer Staff / The New York Observer			pick at pick away pick brain pick brains pick from pick holes in pick of pick off pick on pick on your own size pick out pick out of pick over pick pocket pick to pieces pick up pick up after pick up marbles pick up on pick up speed pick up steam pick up the ball and run pick up the bill pick up the pace pick up the pieces pick up the slack pick up the tab pick up the threads of pick way pick way through picked over picking pickle picnic picture picture as picture in picture is worth a thousand words picture of picture of health picture perfect picture-perfect piddle piddle around piddle away pie pie in the sky piece piece of cake piece out piece together			pick up on pick up on pick up on pick up on Pick Up Record Capability Pick Up Repair and Return Pick Up Request Form pick up someone for a song pick up speed pick up speed pick up speed pick up speed pick up speed pick up steam pick up steam pick up steam pick up steam pick up steam Pick Up Sticks Pick Up Sticks Pattern pick up the ball and run pick up the baton pick up the baton pick up the baton pick up the bill pick up the check pick up the gauntlet Pick Up the Pace Pick Up the Pace Pick Up the Pieces pick up the slack pick up the tab pick up the threads of Pick Up Truck Pick up Your Own Poop Pick Up/Put Down pick way pick way pick way pick way pick way pick way through Pick You Up Pick Your Brain Pick Your Fight Promotions Pick Your Label Pick Your Nose Pick Your Own Pick Your Poison Pick's atrophy Pick's c's Pick's c's Pick's c's Pick's c's Pick's cell Pick's disease Pick's disease Pick's disease Pick's disease Pick's disease 1 Pick's disease 2

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