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Slack off

1 - Workers tend to slack off on Mondays and Fridays.

- to work less hard or to be less than is usual or necessary:

2 - Companies just want to make sure their employees aren't slacking off.

- if someone slacks off, they stop working hard or putting effort into something:

3 – He urged Washington not to slack off in its development of new energy sources.

- if someone slacks off, they stop working hard or putting effort into something:

4 – Business has slacked off so much that he spends his days remodeling the store.

- if the rate of activity, development, etc. slacks off, it becomes less strong or happens less
quickly:

5 - For the record, I don’t agree with this.

- Só pra constar, eu não concordo com isso.

6 – I don’t like him. Just for the record.

- Eu não gosto dele. Só pra constar.

7 – For the record, I don’t like eating chinese food.

- Só pra constar, eu não gosto de comer comida chinesa.

8 – Just for the record, your plan didn’t work.

- Só pra registrar, seu plano não funcionou.


9 – She made it clear that her comments were strictly off the record.

- If someone says something off the record, they do not want it to be publicly reported:

10 – An aide told reporters, off the record, that the senator had been lying.

- said without the intention of being published or officially noted:

11 – My off-the-record remarks were printed in the paper the next day.

- said without the intention of being published or officially noted:

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