let up

He wrote McIvor's "intensity and passion for life, for music, for creativity and for positive change simply never let up".

“The storm just didn’t let up,” she said.

Head coach John Mitchell has pointed to a little untidiness here, some slack hands there, and periods where England have been slow to start or let up the pressure on the accelerator.

Even as the heat is forecast to continue letting up over the next few days, officials warn that the humid, monsoonal pattern is not yet passed.

At the time the transport secretary, Mairi McAllan, said that a new rolling programme of improvements was "achievable" and there would be "no let up" in the work.