pull back (from (something))

to change to a less extreme way of thinking.

The hijackers then pulled back from threats to blow up the ship and its 200 passengers.

• cut your losses
• cut your own throat
• cut your teeth
• cut your teeth in
• cut your teeth in something
• damned if do and damned if don't
• damned if do and damned if you don't
• damned if you do and damned if don't
• damned if you do and damned if you don't
• damn it
• damn someone with faint praise
• damn something with faint praise
• damn with faint praise
• damp squib
• dance to someone's tune
• dance to tune
• dance up a storm
• darkest hour is just before the dawn.
• dark horse
• dark-horse
• Davy Jones's locker
• dawn on
• dawn on you
• day after day
• day and night