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get off scot-free
verb as in beat the rap
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There are other similarly situated individuals who get off scot-free for perjury.
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The justices are now all on notice that if they continue to flout this federal statute, then they can get off scot-free.
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It is a disappointment to anyone tired of seeing Trump get off scot-free.
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But the jury will soon hear that New York criminal law is not so naïve as to allow the ringleader of a criminal scheme to get off scot-free, simply because his minions did the deeds.
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Iran, he added, would not get off “scot-free.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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