let off the hook

基本解釋

While most of Ms Lagarde’s to-do list applied to Europe and America, the big emerging economies were not let off the hook.
盡管拉加德列出的大部分舉措適用于歐美國家，她也未讓主要的新興經(jīng)濟體袖手旁觀。
Yet what the industry and its defenders demand is, of course, precisely that it be let off the hook for the damage it causes.
然而，水力壓裂行業(yè)及其捍衛(wèi)者所要求的，卻正是對自身造成的損失一推了之。
And the world’s politicians, they may well negotiate with less commitment if they feel that they may one day be let off the hook.
同時如果政客們感到遲早會錯過取勝的機會，那么缺少承諾的談判也許會進行的更好。

But,they say they will not let the president off the hook until a number of important questions are answered and certain reprehensible acts are ended.
I don't know what this tells us about David and Nina, but don't let them off the hook quite yet.
從大衛(wèi)和妮娜的協(xié)調中得不出什么結論,這事兒還沒結束呢
耶魯公開課 - 博弈論課程節(jié)選
He's not about to let mankind off the hook with Judgment Day.
他并不打算讓人類從審判日的掛鉤上下來。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選

Those who were on edge to chase performance were let off the hook.
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