How To Use Off the hook In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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Chelsea's confidence dims after Blackburn are let off the hook
El-Hadji Diouf to face internal investigation at Blackburn Rovers
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The production is off the hook and Goldenboy's flow is unmatchable.
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One fish took my entire bait off the hook with no problem.
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She snatched her housecoat off the hook on the back of her door and hastily slipped it on.
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Then he took his phone off the hook.
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Unless he can get off the hook.
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The former university lecturer took them inside to find his pet Ginger dozing next to the phone which was off the hook.
The Sun
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What is clear is that EU governments do not want to let Greece off the hook - and that any option would force Greece to make long-delayed reforms to rife tax evasion, rigid labor market rules and an inefficient andhigh-spending pension and health care system.
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His creative process involves holing up in his Paris flat with the phone off the hook.
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I wish people wouldn't assume I need something from them, avoiding me to keep themselves off the hook.
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It's a process members detest, which is why many have wished Rangel would resign, getting them off the hook for having to judge their colleague.
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With phones literally ringing off the hook, BlackBerry abuzz, it's a typically hectic day for Levy, a matchmaker, or shadchan, in the Orthodox Jewish community in Midwood.
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Unless he can get off the hook.
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Mr. Sughrue said that an ambiguous clause in the loan docum ents gave the guarantors an opportunity to claim that, by delivering a deed to the lender, they were off the hook.
Plans for 14th Street Hotel Go Nowhere
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I left the phone off the hook, so it wouldn't ring.
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In return for getting them off the hook, as it were -- Sir Percival Dart!
DOUBLE DECEIT
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The telephone receiver was off the hook and BT was able to open the line to the house.
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I emphasize the tense because Congress has the habit of letting itself off the hook when convenient.
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Since war broke out, the phones at donation centers have been ringing off the hook.
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Certainly not clinical finishing, letting England off the hook at a few key moments.
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Then he took his phone off the hook.
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Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon, rather than letting me off the hook, only improved the tale.
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The fish came off the hook but a quick and well targeted swipe of the net boated the fish. (i.e. Steelers came back against almost overwhelming odds to win a 6th Super Bowl.)
Lost at the Net
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But on the leader page, the paper lets the administration off the hook on this one, saying the information passed to the president was insufficient to tip him off about the attacks, and places the blame on the intelligence services.
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Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irrevent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment.
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This one with blue cheese is off the hook.
The Sun
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John's agreed to go to the meeting in my place so that gets/lets me off the hook.
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Certainly not clinical finishing, letting England off the hook at a few key moments.
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I've been trying to phone him all day?he must have left his telephone off the hook.
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I lift the jacket off the hook, and with one smooth motion swing it over my shoulders and push my arms through the sleeves.
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Then he took his phone off the hook.
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But don't think that gets you off the hook, buster.
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I am filled with a renascent anxiety about my booking – KLM seems willing to let me off the hook, but will Trailfinders play ball?
Jean's Knitting
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The telephone receiver was off the hook and BT was able to open the line to the house.
Times, Sunday Times
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When people protest the way the Administration is let off the hook until the election, of course, the charge will be that they are attempting to politicize the process.
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He'd decided to make Sandra wait before letting her off the hook.
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Stephanie finally took it off the hook and left to join the big party that was under way in the seminar room.
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I hadn't made arrangements with an undertaker and the phone rang off the hook with calls from New York.
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His creative process involves holing up in his Paris flat with the phone off the hook.
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Mr. Obama's jobs bill, which proposes $130 billion of aid for state and local governments, would obviate these reforms and take lawmakers off the hook for goosing workers' pensions in return for their political support.
Obama's Selective Memory
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Local public defenders wonder whether police preserve so-called exculpatory videos, the kind of tapes that could get a client off the hook.
CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2007
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The telephone receiver was off the hook and BT was able to open the line to the house.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I was lucky to get off the hook, so I don't think stealing will work for me,’ says Matthias, vocalizing his thoughts.
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Not exactly ‘guilty,’ but definitely not off the hook, either - despite good production values and a good heart, Spirit of Wonder is dull, boring, and in the court's opinion, completely unmarketable.
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The multimillion-pound black market in bootleg films and CDs is thriving because prosecutors let criminals off the hook, it was claimed last night.
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Take the phone off the hook, switch the mobile off, ignore the knock at the front door, chill the wine.
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Toni shut the door, and I grabbed the towel off the hook by the sink.
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By wasting your time attacking me, it's your absurd purism which is letting them off the hook.
How Religion is Misunderstood
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Does saving cally let him off the hook for killing 23 others?
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He left the phone off the hook so that he wouldn't be disturbed.
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He never lets his characters off the hook, no matter how much their characters have been shaped and determined by their upbringing.
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The effort to say that Imus should not be so badly treated if blacks who have made similar statements about black women are let off the hook is a product of the first America.
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He counted on his friends to get him off the hook.
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‘Don't try to get yourself off the hook, buster,’ Nicole scolded, wagging her finger at him like an impatient mother.
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You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial
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I won't have to worry this week that he'll use my dough to bankroll consiglieri who get bosses off the hook when they're charged with pimping out children, or nabbed on tax code and RICO violation counts; nor fear my contributions will be used to fund cheese-eaters on Apostolic Inquisition teams (technically Apostolic Visitation teams), Vatican snitches who spy on women in convents.
Michele Somerville: Church Collection: Should Conscientious Catholics Stop Giving?
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I couldn't get through because you'd left the phone off the hook.
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A change of clothing also lets you off the hook.
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The Seagraves show how Japan and its Emperor were ‘got off the hook’, and were excused from paying huge war reparation funds because the nation was ‘bankrupt’.
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The visitors were left off the hook a minute later when Dara O'Cinneide chipped up a ball that was sent in by Moynihan and, after infiltrating the cover, his low shot hit the butt of the post.
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It's possible that the development might get journalists off the hook, as they were being pressed to reveal their sources to the inquiry.
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What may get the comic off the hook is the fact that the comic exists in a different format (i.e. - books/comics) than the band (music).
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Of course, he addressed the question in the dreariest, "edgiest" fashion possible...and, oddly enough, let Superman and Wonder Woman off the hook entirely despite their very, very long publication histories of brainwashing just about anyone when it was convenient.
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His creative process involves holing up in his Paris flat with the phone off the hook.
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Had the subsequently discovered planet Uranus displayed retrograde motion, the Newtonian theory would have been off the hook.
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Your phone has been ringing off the hook and your desk is piled with work demanding your attention.
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Fishing is allowed; however, your child should not bait the hook, take the fish off the hook, or clean the fish.
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Then Warne lets Flintoff off the hook with one ball he can read - the full-toss, which is duly dispatched over the infield.
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Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.
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It is a characteristic of charmers that when they suspect they may have caused offence, they calculate that a sufficiently charming apology should get them off the hook.
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Since war broke out, the phones at donation centers have been ringing off the hook.
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The phone has been ringing off the hook with offers of help.
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I wasn't prepared to let her off the hook that easily.
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This one with blue cheese is off the hook.
The Sun
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He left the phone off the hook so that he wouldn't be disturbed.
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Scroll down this post and you can hear No Wave cult heroines Y Pants — artists Barbara Ess, Virginia Piersol, and Gail Vachon — performing their version of the Rolling Stones '"Off the Hook," produced by guitar symphonist Glenn Branca.
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Perhaps the standard narrative is just a way for the media to get itself off the hook.
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I think the only way to get myself off the hook is actually to pick up the hook and promise to learn to crochet this year, she's already bought me the hook and the book.
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I've been trying to phone him all day?he must have left his telephone off the hook.
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He'd thrown the receiver off the hook, but she was haranguing the empty line, demanding he reply.
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Many of you may remember the first time your innate female air of innocence got you off the hook - for me it was farting in church.
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Second, to let your attacker off the hook is to warp the frame of justice.
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Incidentally, even if Whitman's nanny agency handled the I-9, that doesn't let her off the hook for violations in completing the form.
Phil Trounstine: Why Didn't eMeg Sign Nicky's Work Documents?
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In the hour before tea yesterday, the phone in the administrative office should have been ringing off the hook.
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It's wrong to let them off the hook altogether and only blame the managers, the systems and a breakdown in communications.
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She let me off the hook with grace, respect and her trademark southern charm.
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He left the phone off the hook as he didn't want to be disturbed.
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And designed to get all those equally responsible off the hook.
The Sun
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I repaid my debt helping others out, but I think it would be sound business practice to maybe get you off the hook.
OUTCAST
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I left the phone off the hook, so it wouldn't ring.
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I let him off the hook with a mild reprimand
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With her soft voice and her calm exterior, she absolutely would not let creditors off the hook.
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I'd ring on Saturday morning, when many young marrieds are out watching their children play soccer, cricket or basketball, and most young singles are hungover and off the hook.
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His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
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I've been trying to phone him all day?he must have left his telephone off the hook.
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It could even, in a pinch, get him off the hook for the nightly walk to the monument.
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Unless he can get off the hook.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second, to let your attacker off the hook is to warp the frame of justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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His miss handed Cougars a scrum in front of the posts - but they let him off the hook by not punishing his mistake with a score.
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His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
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Even migratory songbirds like thrushes, warblers, swallows, and orioles are not off the hook.
Spill’s danger to migratory birds
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He'd decided to make Sandra wait before letting her off the hook.
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But insurance firms have been let off the hook over automatic policy renewals.
The Sun
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Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon, rather than letting me off the hook, only improved the tale.
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She must have left the phone off the hook.
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In the wake of their decision to let Rangers off the hook, UEFA took an unmerciful pounding from the Scottish media.
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His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
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A smooth-talking lawyer got him off the hook on the grounds of constitutional rights.
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Second, to let your attacker off the hook is to warp the frame of justice.
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