ease up
verb1
Informal To become more relaxed or less demanding.
- I suggest that you ease up a bit at work. You're getting stressed out.
- You should ease up on your son. You're putting too much pressure on him.
2
Informal To reduce one's speed.
- He came hurtling round the corner, but quickly eased up when he saw Jane standing there.
- As we swung through Hatfield in just over six hours from Edinburgh, the day was all but won, and Tappin eased up completely.1956 December 23, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 821: