give enough rope

give somebody enough rope (to hang themselves)

to allow someone to do what they want to, knowing that they will probably fail or get into trouble I let him speak on, knowing that he would offend the director, and gave him just enough rope.

See Go piss up a rope!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
RÉMi	re-MEE	French
Monday	MUN-day	English (Rare)
Lucio	LOO-cho (Italian)	Italian, Spanish
Ignac	-	Slovene
Milena	mee-LE-nah (Italian)	Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Italian
Acuff	[ə'kʌf]