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slap on the wrist
Idioms and Phrases
A mild reproof, as in We were fined heavily, and all she got from the judge was a slap on the wrist . [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
"Just, like how has this justice system let us down so badly? How has this kind of thing essentially been allowed to happen and there's just been a slap on the wrist?"
"In two years, Sinner would simply have had a slap on the wrist," one source from an anti-doping organisation told BBC Sport.
"You can kill a man... and you can walk free. Not even a single night in prison. Just a slap on the wrist and a ticket to carry on your life, like nothing ever happened," Keating posted on Instagram.
"We remain hopeful that his sentencing will not be merely a slap on the wrist but a decision that upholds the seriousness of his crime." the Yarl family said in a statement to local media.
"We were prepared to go to court and for him to get a slap on the wrist," she says.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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