soft-pedal

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
 * 2)  To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
 * 3)  To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
 * 4)  Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
 * 1)  To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
 * 2)  Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
 * 1)  To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
 * 2)  Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
 * 1)  Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.

Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,


 * Finnish: painaa villaisella, pehmitellä
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: у́блажи
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,


 * Finnish: pehmitellä,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:


 * Finnish: maltillistua
 * Macedonian: