open the floodgates(If they win their case, it could open the floodgates to others with similar compensation claims. Usage notes: usually used to describe activities that had been difficult or illegal but which are now easier or allowed and expected to be done by many. VLZ_58); let in on(кому-либо) узнать о (чем-то Ant493); let in on(кому-либо) принять участие в (чем-то Ant493)
indulge one(to permit to do something which ordinarily might be considered in violation of some rule, such as a rule of etiquette ; только в контексте, в фразах типа "если позволите" • And now, dear reader, indulge me as I recycle some material I wrote twelve years ago, recounting the events of two years earlier. • And here I hope you'll indulge me, I'm going to break the time frame of December 1941 but for reasons I think you'll find understandable. • Indulge me in reporting a little inside baseball because it illustrates something important. • I have no significant reservations in recommending the collection, but symptomatic of that disease all reviewers share, I do have some smaller ones, if you will indulge me.4uzhoj)
