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get away with murder |
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get away with murder 1. Lit. to commit murder and not get punished for it. (See also get away with something.) Don't kill me! You can't get away with murder! 2. Fig. to do something very bad and not get punished for it. That guy always gets away with murder—just because he's cute. You will spoil your son if you let him get away with murder. You should punish him for his back-talk. get away with murder (informal) to be allowed to do things that other people would be punished or criticized for Dave gets away with murder because he's so charming. get away with murder to not be punished for bad behavior It seems to me that kids these days really get away with murder in the classroom. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``It's a lot easier to get away with murder if there is no extradition,'' said Detective George Shamlyan of the Los Angeles Police Department. There are legitimate worries that with Chris at the helm, investors will be unprotected against corporate abuses and management tyranny, because Chris adheres to a less regulatory, lower tax, classic conservative, free enterprise model, the kind that allows good businesses to flourish and bad ones to get away with murder. An investigative report conducted by the CBS television affiliate in Nogales, Arizona, in late 2002 concluded: "If a Mexican citizen kills someone in Arizona, and makes it across the border, odds are, [he] will get away with murder. |
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