off the hook

"At home, I hugged my mother, and we cried together for a while. Then cousins and friends started to arrive, and the phone was ringing off the hook."

Will, who works for an environmental nonprofit, argues that humans won’t be able to recycle their way out of the crisis and that harping on personal responsibility only lets corporate perpetrators off the hook.

The Dodgers did get Glasnow off the hook for the loss in the sixth.

“The bottom line is this is a giveaway to emitters, just letting them off the hook entirely,” said Rachel Cleetus, senior policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt repeated Tuesday that “the phones are ringing off the hook” from global leaders, hoping to negotiate an end to the crippling taxes.