off the hook

How To Use off the hook In A Sentence

• A good lawyer might fudge the issue for his client - not sufficiently to get him off the hook, but sufficiently to suggest that he honestly felt himself justified in making a second marriage.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged the bank with covering up for outrageous bonuses given out at Merrill Lynch as the bank acquired the failed stockbrokerage, and now it was letting the bank off the hook with a chicken-feed fine. Robert Scheer: Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag
• Apart from the clear failure to understand what the word 'leader' actually means, this is almost always only an excuse for inaction, which lets the financial sector off the hook while public services are slashed, the poor get poorer and the world heats up. Sarah Anderson: Europe Takes the Lead in Drive to Tax Speculators
• Chelsea's confidence dims after Blackburn are let off the hook El-Hadji Diouf to face internal investigation at Blackburn Rovers
• The production is off the hook and Goldenboy's flow is unmatchable.
• One fish took my entire bait off the hook with no problem.
• She snatched her housecoat off the hook on the back of her door and hastily slipped it on.
• Then he took his phone off the hook. Times, Sunday Times
• Unless he can get off the hook. Times, Sunday Times
• The former university lecturer took them inside to find his pet Ginger dozing next to the phone which was off the hook. The Sun