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beat the rap

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beat the rap (American, informal)
to escape being punished. There's no way he can beat the rap now. No lawyer can save him.
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beat the rap
to avoid being punished. People think that if you have enough money and high-priced lawyers, you can generally beat the rap.
Related vocabulary: get off (scot-free)
See also: beat, rap
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The painful and lingering memory of the Los Angeles Police Department officers' acquittal in the King beating trial, the deep reluctance of prosecutors to charge police with abuse and jurors' aversion to convicting cops in racially tinged cases sobered many blacks to the fact that the odds were great Morse would beat the rap.
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