Possible Clues:

• Refrain from taking wife? Sloth leads to virtual estrangement
• Partners shortly holding a pass up
• Refrain from insisting on right or privilege
• Temporarily ignore, as a rule
• Relinquish legally
• In flap, I surrender
• Not insist on (claim)
• Refrain from using roller, say
• Dispense with spoken farewell, perhaps
• Forgo greeting verbally?