get off scot-free

The justices are now all on notice that if they continue to flout this federal statute, then they can get off scot-free.

It is a disappointment to anyone tired of seeing Trump get off scot-free.

But the jury will soon hear that New York criminal law is not so naïve as to allow the ringleader of a criminal scheme to get off scot-free, simply because his minions did the deeds.

Iran, he added, would not get off “scot-free.”

Iran, he added, would not get off “scot-free with this aggression.”