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get away with murder

verb

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  1. To do something bad or illegal and escape the punishment that others would receive.

    • Just yesterday it was fashionable to be black. Remember? Any black writer could get away with murder, just as any Jewish-American writer can get away with murder.
    • He'd spoil the boy just as we have all spoiled him, and though he's a big strapping fellow and a soldier at that, he'd let Ned get away with murder just as I've done.
    • It's because you let people get away with murder, Quill.

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