Related Clues:

• Become flabby
• Stop being strict
• Become lenient (on)
• Get mushy
• Conciliate
• Start to melt
• Lose one's resolve
• Become lenient, as on crime
• Take it easy, with 'on'
• Show sympathy toward, with "on"
• Become lenient
• Opposite of get tough
• Treat leniently, with "on"
• Lose one’s resolve