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pick up the slack

verb

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  1. Alternative form of take up the slack.

    • In such cases even a four-to-one multiplying reel is much too slow to pick up the slack, and a single-action fly reel is hopelessly inadequate.
    • To go forward, lightly pick up the slack in one line to show the horse or horses which direction you'll be heading.
    • "Reel in! Reel! Reel!" I shouted, though with no one else within a hundred miles; she could have heard me whisper. You tend to do that when you are really excited. Pick up the slack!” Pick up the slack!"

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