take up the slack

== English == === Alternative forms === pick up the slack === Verb === take up the slack (third-person singular simple present takes up the slack, present participle taking up the slack, simple past took up the slack, past participle taken up the slack) To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut. To do work that would otherwise be left undone. To provide extra resources that are not met by normal sources. (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality. To consume something that would otherwise go to waste. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== take it from here, take it from there