Слово "slack". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

I think he left it unsaid — ‘I do not intend to have my professional reputation compromised by the slackness of a few temporary officers.’

There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

He was one of those boys who are too slack to play games, and he exercised great ingenuity in making excuses to avoid such as were compulsory.

"Yes, Joe; but what I wanted to say, was, that as we are rather slack just now, if you would give me a half-holiday to-morrow, I think I would go up-town and make a call on Miss Est—Havisham."

Glaring headlines, sandwiched biographies of every member of the household, subtle innuendoes, the usual familiar tag about the police having a clue. Nothing was spared us. It was a slack time.

The line went slack and Nick thought the trout was gone.

“Faster, faster, do not slack.”

Gabrielle let her mouth fall slack.

Slack and untidy like all her sort!

"Look here, young fellow, I don't care what you do out of office-hours, but I've seen those sketches of yours and they're on office-paper, and Mr. Goodworthy tells me you're slack.

Boiling eggs you didn't have to wait for the fire to slack, you could do it smoke and all.

There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

Keeping a firm grip on the rope, Scott waded forward another foot, sank to his waist, gritted his teeth, and reached for the boy—and felt the rope go slack!

By then, there was just enough slack remaining in the line for him to belay it around a small tree and secure it in place.

Glaring headlines, sandwiched biographies of every member of the household, subtle innuendoes, the usual familiar tag about the police having a clue. Nothing was spared us. It was a slack time.

Glaring headlines, sandwiched biographies of every member of the household, subtle innuendoes, the usual familiar tag about the police having a clue. Nothing was spared us. It was a slack time.

He wanted to carry a sock full of birdshot when he first came on the job, to work the patients into shape, but she told him they didn’t do it that way anymore, made him leave the sap at home and taught him her own technique; taught him not to show his hate and to be calm and wait, wait for a little advantage, a little slack, then twist the rope and keep the pressure steady.

I'm always afraid, though, that she will let the rope get slack, so I keep one anxious eye on her and swim with the other, and with this divided interest I do not make the progress that I otherwise might.

He didn’t even try to catch the pipe when it fell from his mouth as his jaw went slack.

His mouth slacked.

Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.

Then it went slack.

Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.

There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

Rachel’s mouth fell slack.

I shall slack around.

But that slacked off as days went by and did not seem to be any danger--p-suit is nuisance when you don't need it, so bulky.