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get off easy

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get off easy
1. to receive less punishment than expected. It's not right that someone can commit a major crime and get off lightly.
2. to have less difficulty than is usual. The Midwest got off easy with little snow this winter.
See also: easy

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In addition to being a dominating superstar, O'Neal is so good-hearted, so playful, so generally likeable, that he is constantly allowed to get off easy when he makes what for most anyone else would be damning transgressions of common sense and basic maturity.
Might the driver get off easy because he works for the city?
There's also the hard-to-fore-see impact of inflation, which would eat away large chunks of some people's retirement income, while others would get off easy.
 
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