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