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slap on the wrist



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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]
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"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?"

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"In two years, Sinner would simply have had a slap on the wrist," one source from an anti-doping organisation told BBC Sport.

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"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.

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"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.

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"We were prepared to go to court and for him to get a slap on the wrist," she says.

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