Idiom Breakdown

mail it in

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Definition

To deliver a performance without commitment or effort, with lackluster results.

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In Context

""I do think the judges mailed it in during Season 6, relative to previous years," Welton says. "Simon needs to be nastier. […]""
"So when you have to write two columns a week that are going to be read by a lot of people around the world, you can't just mail it in. You're thinking all the time."
"Listen, we're not mailing it in, we're trying to get better."

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