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What is a slap on the wrist?

What is a slap on the wrist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A mild or overly mild punishment; a reprimand.
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In fact, some of the key drug criminals in our communities are getting a slap on the wrist if they are even penalized in the courts.
They feel Canadian judges are the worst and are liable to give criminals who appear before them nothing but a slap on the wrist.
Why do students think they can always break the law and be let off with just a reprimand or a slap on the wrist?
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.
But around that age, you usually get one second chance after a slap on the wrist.
Yet even at their most far-fetched offerings, the band's only elicited a mere chuckle and slap on the wrist from critics.

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