Take the phone off the hook, switch the mobile off, ignore the knock at the front door, chill the wine. |
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When pulling rank fails to get him off the hook, Wade resorts to desperate measures to escape justice. |
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They was gonna take him to the woodshed but then they let him off the hook. |
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That was all, a slap on the wrist and a lecture, and he was off the hook, as he did so often to his students. |
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I can't say the phone's ringing off the hook about tree issues on private property. |
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She let me off the hook with grace, respect and her trademark southern charm. |
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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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Not to mention, my phone has been ringing off the hook with people asking if they can come visit me, and have an autograph! |
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The stupid phone was constantly ringing off the hook and he was tired of it. |
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Well, you know, as soon as I didn't know the answer, the phone in my mom's house behind me started ringing off the hook. |
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My phone rings off the hook with teams wanting the opportunity to participate in a meet with such high quality athletes. |
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He came in and lowered the boom on a lot of people, and he didn't let people off the hook just because they were friendly or nice. |
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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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He's pretty chipper about his inquiry, but I think his man let that old trout Barbara off the hook. |
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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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She snatched her housecoat off the hook on the back of her door and hastily slipped it on. |
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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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Happily, he uses it for speed, letting us off the hook much quicker than many another film appropriationist now skulking in galleries worldwide. |
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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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Guilt by innuendo and tch-tch-ing at the supposed loose morals of the girl in question just might get the sarge off the hook. |
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However, securitization may not get a lender completely off the hook in the eyes of credit analysts. |
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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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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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Neither will tinkering with small print after they've been caught out let the banks off the hook. |
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A smooth-talking lawyer got him off the hook on the grounds of constitutional rights. |
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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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I didn't have a chance to submit my questions to you in advance so I'm going to let you off the hook. |
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Unfortunately, such action, welcome though it will be, is unlikely to get the Chancellor off the hook that easily. |
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I don't think he's off the hook at all, because either he was misled or he deliberately lied. |
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Even America, which is the leader of the democratic world, does not let corrupt directors get off the hook. |
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Only when the mom told the judge that her mother had stayed with them in their hotel room was she off the hook. |
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She let him off the hook since that also meant letting herself off the hook. |
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Alexander has no truck with the view that pushing the voluntary sector into the forefront of social change is letting the state off the hook. |
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She prefers to leave the phone off the hook because it was the telephone that brought the fateful news. |
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He took the telephone off the hook, placed cushions on the floor, locked the door, drew the blinds and asked her to lie down. |
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The receiver was slightly off the hook, tilted, but on enough that it was connected. |
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When they asked British Telecom to check the line, it is claimed they were told the line was not faulty but the phone had been left off the hook. |
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Harris also took the telephone off the hook so the complainant was unable to call her mother. |
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She tosses her shoes at the telephone when it rings, hoping to knock the receiver off the hook. |
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Prosecuting murder as a hate crime only lets the rest of us think we're off the hook, while it tramples on justice. |
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And the mood won't be improved by the stitch-up with the unions to get him off the hook in the emergency debate on Iraq. |
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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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When I was a guest on a national NPR show, the phone rang off the hook for an hour and the station got more than 100 e-mails about motherhood and family issues. |
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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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Instead of hanging his head in shame, he has taken each and every opportunity our lenient justice system has given him to try and get himself off the hook. |
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Is a perpetrator off the hook because he or she uses the market to pay the kickback? |
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Whilst he was clearing up the mess, he noticed the phone was off the hook. |
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When the maid found her body, she noticed the telephone was off the hook. |
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A policy that shifts this task to economic players lets policy makers off the hook at the expense of those affected. |
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Toni shut the door, and I grabbed the towel off the hook by the sink. |
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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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Currently the fog of information allows politicians off the hook. |
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And when it comes to liability litigation, as inevitably it will, Rolls Royce would seem to be off the hook. |
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How tragic it would be if advocates for international justice helped them get off the hook. |
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The court should not let BP get off the hook without fully compensating Americans for what was lost. |
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Employers get off the hook because BBS programs focus on worker behaviour instead of employer-controlled conditions. |
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Canadians are not fooled by the Prime Minister and his spin doctors trying to get off the hook. |
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We try to ask questions that will embarrass the government and the government attempts to answer and try to get off the hook. |
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It allows employers to get off the hook and not have to do the right thing, which is bargain in good faith. |
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These Member States, which are collaborating, were let off the hook totally. |
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We need to be asking why they should be suddenly let off the hook when it comes to maintaining their transmission infrastructure. |
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There has been great pressure applied by the British Government, but this must not be a case where a big country is let off the hook. |
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We must recognize that UN agencies have a real responsibility and cannot be let off the hook. |
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They often use the paperwork loophole to get themselves off the hook. |
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The Super Eagles let their guests slip off the hook, however, to drop two potentially decisive points. |
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Additionally, it prevents the camp office from being disrupted because of phones ringing off the hook and from having to call each family contact individually. |
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Veda is the villain of the film, but Mildred isn't let off the hook, either. |
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After six months of intermittent interrogations and several lie detector tests, Elahi got off the hook. |
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Secondly, undermining a general consensus and process is a sure-fire way to let business off the hook when it comes to adopting higher standards. |
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Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook. |
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Unfortunately, chasing that myopic positivity lets bad people off the hook. |
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The production is off the hook and Goldenboy's flow is unmatchable. |
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This bill gets the government off the hook and frees it of any responsibility for contamination that could occur at a nuclear plant site. |
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In a sense, it lets somebody who is accused of very serious criminality off the hook if they agree to leave the country. |
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The first is to say that we are letting people off the hook without allowing them to fulfil their obligations. |
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Jason did his bit, I think he's off, he's off the hook now and these guys have to answer all the questions. |
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So long as the employer pays the agreed amount, he is off the hook when it comes to funding issues. |
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It is important that your children leave the phone off the hook after the call. |
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You didn't think I was letting her off the hook that easily, did you? |
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Which means that Benton, while still not a suspect, is not entirely off the hook in the Wilkins investigation. |
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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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Some criticise this as letting property owners off the hook. |
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I placed the advertisement yesterday, and the phone has been ringing off the hook ever since. |
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The mystery's solution is wholly unsatisfactory and the assumed bad guys, Opus Dei and the Vatican, are let off the hook, presumably for fear of American lawsuits. |
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Last year at least four countries carried out nuclear weapons tests, but according to the rapporteur it is only North Korea and Iran that are dangerous, while the others are let off the hook. |
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I was amused to learn, this past weekend, that three Conservative MPs from the Quebec City area were trying to get off the hook through an open letter printed in the daily Le Soleil. |
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When the boss assigned the project to Tom, the rest of us were relieved to be off the hook. |
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The preceding Palaeocene epoch was also brought to an end, the rocks suggest, by a sudden release of methane. The burp could, of course, have been provoked by the eruptions, so the volcanoes are not off the hook completely. |
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It short-changes their customers and lets the other suppliers off the hook. |
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Subsequently he underwent investigation, which revealed that there is a tiny broken piece of bone off the hook of hamate. |
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We did a lot of good things, but one little thing near the end let them off the hook. |
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He had been listening to this entire thing, we knew he had him dead to rights and that he made us squirm for a good five minutes before he let us off the hook and let us go. |
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Gently shake the gaff to make the fish fall off the hook. |
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In an earlier case, the Bhinder case, the court had ruled that once a rule is proven to be a BFOR the company was automatically off the hook for discrimination. |
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To get themselves off the hook, and cows back on it, the abattoirs vowed that in future they would deal only with ranchers who had registered their names and property details and promised not to deforest illegally. |
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For close to a decade the former finance minister, with the full support of the Prime Minister, decided who would pay taxes and who would be let off the hook. |
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Member States also need to follow the rules for minimising industrial pollution to avoid creating confusion that could let some potential polluters off the hook. |
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October 28th, 2010, Halifax Nova Scotia... As ghouls and goblins prepare for Halloween, the RCMP in Nova Scotia remind adults that while they may not be trick-or-treating, they are not off the hook when it comes to safety. |
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Learn to let off the hook of personality and hook-on to the Divine. |
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However, the Lions let the Eagles off the hook, thanks in part to a service error by Shaun Powers and a hitting error by Blake Fol. |
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She's not letting anyone off the hook this winter, she says coldly, dropping off another white calling card for commuters this morning. |
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Afterward he took his smart visored cap off the hook and limped down town, his boots and leggings and uniform very spick and span from Ma Werner's expert brushing and rubbing. |
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I think he left the phone off the hook so that nobody would call him. |
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Without any evidence, the police had to let the suspect off the hook. |
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The phone was off the hook and Ginger had a paw on the phone keyboard. |
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