call off the dogs

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)To ease up on after inflicting great punishment.; (sports,idiomatic)During a one-sided sports contest, to remove thefirst-stringunit of a team from the game after dominating the opponent.Doing the opponents an obvious favor, the football coach decided tocall off the dogsearly after his team was up 56-0.

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