get off lightly

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Verb

get off lightly (third-person singular simple present gets off lightly, present participle getting off lightly, simple past got off lightly, past participle (UK) got off lightly or (US) gotten off lightly)

(idiomatic) To end up with a mild punishment, or without serious harm.
My cousin got off lightly with a restraining order after he broke the boy’s leg.

Translations

end up with a mild punishment

Russian: легко отделаться (leχkó otdélat’sja)

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