go light on (someone)
go light on (someone)
To treat someone delicately, gently, or leniently; to not criticize, punish, or berate someone too harshly. Ah, go light on Bill, it's only his first day in the office.
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go light on
1. To use, acquire, or consume in small or moderate amounts: go light on the garlic.
2. To treat leniently.
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- be soft on (someone)
- be in bad with (someone)
- be like ships that pass in the night
- be ships that pass in the night
- be like ships passing in the night
- be left in charge (of someone or something)
- accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
- accompany on a journey
- be put in charge (of someone or something)
- a stranger to (someone or something)