get away with murder
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To do something bad or illegal and escape the punishment that others would receive.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He said I found out about everything he did and said, 'I can't get away with nothing, and Jim can get away with murder.' I don't think that I let any of my kids get away with murder, and I don't think any one of them ever did much serious mischief."
- "And what do you say to someone who might be on the left, who’d be listening to this conversation and would say: Oh look, Bannon is absolutely right. There was a financial crisis. Wall Street got away with murder."