make allowances for (someone/something)

to consider particular facts relating to someone or something.

We try to make allowances for our students' different language backgrounds.

When planning a trip, you have to make allowances for things that you can't know ahead of time, such as crowds or bad weather.

Related vocabulary: allow for something, take something into account

• beat someone to within an inch of life
• beat someone to within an inch of their life
• beat someone up
• beat swords into ploughshares
• be at the bottom of
• be at the bottom of something
• beat the bushes
• beat the daylights out of
• beat the daylights out of someone
• beat the drum
• be at the end of tether
• be at the end of your tether
• beat the hell out of
• beat the hell out of someone
• beat the hell out of something
• beat the living daylights out of
• beat the living daylights out of someone
• be at the mercy of
• be at the mercy of someone
• be at the mercy of something
• beat the pants off
• beat the rap
• be at the receiving end
• beat the socks off
• beat the system