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get away/off scot-free
(redirected from get off scot-free)

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get away/off scot-free (informal)
to avoid the punishment that you deserve or expect. If you don't take out a complaint against him he'll get off scot-free!
See also: away
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After an extremely humiliating legal battle in the Rajasthan High Court, the rape survivor did not get justice and the rapists, described as "educated and upper caste affluent men," were allowed to get off scot-free.
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It's hard to advocate throwing the book at someone when those guilty of much greater offenses get off scot-free with their political offices, their status and their perks intact.
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He then asks the audience to imagine what would have happened to Bill Clinton had he let people implicated in the Oklahoma City Bombing get off scot-free.
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