martwa woda in inglese:

building in some slack

It is important that no one is allowed to slack off on their assigned work.

We tend to slack off after many hours of hard work.

I thank my sons for their tireless work on behalf of the campaign, and thank their wives and children — (cheers, applause) — for taking up their slack as their husbands and dads have spent so many weeks away from home.

‘a slack rope’, ‘business was rather slack’, ‘they were working at a slack pace’

He grabbed the slack and pulled down the rope.

Sales figures for this month have been rather slack.

security is very slack here

slack discipline, slack worker

Lots of teens are slack students. And summertime is a major slack.

There's a huge slack in that system; with the right pricing we can undo that. - system z wadami

These ​tent ​ropes are too slack - they need ​tightening

Can't cut you any slack for it, though.

Adjustments of the front seat might bring slack in the anchor belts; tighten the anchor belts again.

Cut him some slack, John. It's his first day on the job.