let somebody off the hook

💥 "I lied to get him off the hook"
:Similar
out of trouble
free
in the clear
under no obligation
acquitted
cleared
let off
2.
( of a phone receiver )
not on its rest, and so preventing incoming calls
🔵ring off the hook🔵
NORTH AMERICAN
( of a telephone )
be constantly ringing due to a large number of incoming calls
💥 "once the word was out that we had tickets, the phone was ringing off the hook"
OxfordDictionary@
🔵off the hook🔵
1 ) If you leave the phone off the hook, you do not put it back correctly and it will not ring
2 ) If you are off the hook, you have escaped from a difficult situation
💥 John's agreed to go to the meeting in my place so that gets/lets me off the hook
3 ) informal
extremely good
💥 That party was off the hook!
The next series is going to be off the hook.
CambridgeDictionary@
🔵let/get somebody off the hook🔵
to allow someone or help someone to get out of a difficult situation
• I wasn’t prepared to let her off the hook that easily
• Apologising for ourselves Apologising and being self - deprecating can let you off the hook
• You could let them off the hook, or you could reel them in
• Home striker Paul Crimmen let them off the hook on a number of occasions and Horsham had two goals disallowed
• Why, she wondered, when she had effectively let him off the hook?
• I emphasize the tense because Congress has the habit of letting itself off the hook when convenient.
• It could even, in a pinch, get him off the hook for the nightly walk to the monument
• And he was at the heart of two of the double plays that got Johns off the hook
• People will think they let Charmaine off the hook because she's a woman
• And this time there is no second match to get anyone off the hook!
LongmanDictionary@
Alternative form:9
get somebody off the hook
اصطلاح، با مفهوم:
۱ ) گوشی تلفن را بد گذاشتن ( تا کسی تماس نگیرد )
۲ ) تلفن را قطع کردن
۳ ) قسر در رفتن
❇️PROVERB
❇️SAYING
❇️IDIOM