diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f6e3293d99d4..697c8902881e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -428,7 +428,6 @@ manual_ok_or = "warn"
 manual_string_new = "warn"
 map_err_ignore = "warn"
 map_flatten = "warn"
-map_unwrap_or = "warn"
 match_on_vec_items = "warn"
 match_same_arms = "warn"
 match_wild_err_arm = "warn"
@@ -499,6 +498,7 @@ zero_sized_map_values = "warn"
 #self_named_module_files = "warn"
 
 manual_range_contains = "allow" # this one is just worse imho
+map_unwrap_or = "allow"         # so is this one
 ref_patterns = "allow"          # It's nice to avoid ref pattern, but there are some situations that are hard (impossible?) to express without.
 
 # TODO(emilk): enable more of these lints: