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get away with

Escape the consequences or blame for, as in Bill often cheats on exams but usually gets away with it . [Late 1800s]
get away with murder . Escape the consequences of killing someone; also, do anything one wishes. For example, If the jury doesn't convict him, he'll have gotten away with murder , or He talks all day on the phone—the supervisor is letting him get away with murder . [First half of 1900s]

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But he added that it is "very, very unlikely that a Nigerian could simply adopt a child to improve their immigration situation and get away with it because that would be pretty transparent".

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Certainly the “peace plan” that Trump had just laid on the table should have signaled that the Russians can get away with whatever levels of violence they’d like to commit.

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Essex Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said: "There is simply no place in policing for people who think, wrongly, that they can get away with sexual misconduct."

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"They appear to be wrecking it so that they can rob it and get away with it," he said.

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The federal Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and similar state laws, likewise set out in law just how much degradation or destruction of the natural world corporations or others can get away with.

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get away get a word in edgewise

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