let (someone) off the hook

idiom

: to allow (someone who has been caught doing something wrong or illegal) to go without being punished

If you ask me, they let him off the hook too easily.

Examples of let (someone) off the hook in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After five years, the legal battle between Spotify and Eminem‘s publishing company Eight Mile Style has concluded — and that’s to a legal loophole, the streaming giant has been let off the hook. —

Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024 Promoters Targeted The promoters are not being let off the hook. —

Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2024 The same system that used its prosecutorial discretion to charge him with dozens of felonies when his opponents were let off the hook for similar offenses. —

Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2024 But in the speech decrying the prosecutor who tried Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, Brame incorrectly claimed that her son’s killers were let off the hook. —

Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for let (someone) off the hook

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