go easy
informalto not take or use too much of something:
Go easy on/with the cream - I haven't had any yet.
to treat someone in a gentle way and not criticize them or punish them:
Go easy on the new students.
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Self-control and moderation
- be in command (of yourself) idiom
- collect
- command
- constraint
- continent
- cut your coat according to your cloth idiom
- decorous
- dignified
- impervious
- lightly
- mind over matter idiom
- moderation
- moderation in all things idiom
- monastic
- monasticism
- restrict yourself to sth
- rise above sth
- self-controlled
- self-denial
- self-discipline
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