be let off the hook Idiome

all shook up

excited, nervous Al gets all shook up when he sees Gina. He likes her a lot.

by hook or by crook

in any way necessary She says that she will go to Italy this year by hook or by crook.

hook, line and sinker

without question or doubt, completely She fell in love with her new boyfriend hook, line and sinker.

hook up

connect or fit together As soon as we moved to our new apartment we had to hook up the phone.

hook up with

join, travel together In Calgary, I hooked up with a guy from Montreal.

hooker

prostitute, fallen woman As I walked along 3rd Avenue, a hooker asked me if I was lonely.

let (someone) off the hook

excuse someone from a penalty or promise He let me off the hook and I didn

off the hook

out of trouble or free from an embarrassing situation I think that I am off the hook now and won

on tenterhooks

carefully, cautiously, afraid to move He's cautious since his accident. He drives around on tenterhooks.

play hooky

stay away from school or work without permission When he was a student he often played hooky and didn

be let off the hook

To be pardoned, vindicated, released, or accustomed to abstain blame, responsibility, obligation, or difficulty. At first, Sam was doubtable of burglary money from the safe, but he was let off the angle afterwards aegis camera footage showed it was addition else. A: "I anticipation you had that big assignment accident tonight." B: "No, it got canceled, so I've been let off the hook."Learn more: hook, let, off

off the hook, to get/to be let

To escape from some difficulty. The affinity is to throwing a angle one has bent aback into the water, extenuative its life. The appellation on the angle goes aback to the seventeenth century; the accepted cliché dates alone from the mid-1800s. Anthony Trollope acclimated it (The Small House at Allington, 1864): “Poor Caudle . . . he’s hooked, and he’ll never get himself off the angle again.” Learn more: get, let, off, to

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play dumb play fair play footsie play games play hard to get play hardball play hardball with (someone) play havoc with play hooky play into his hand play into one play into one's hands play into someone play it by ear play it cool play it for all it's worth play it safe be knocking on the door be laid to rest be larger than life be laughed out of court be laughing be laughing (one's) head off be laughing all the way to the bank be laughing on the other side of (one's) face be laughing on the other side of your face be laughing out of the other side of (one's) mouth be laughing up (one's) sleeve be laughing up your sleeve be laughing your head off be left (out) in the cold be left at the post be left hanging (in the air/in midair) be left hanging in the air be left holding the baby be left holding the bag be left in the dark (about something) be left in the lurch be left to (one's) own devices be left to (one's) own resources be left to twist in the wind be left twisting in the wind be let off the hook be level pegging be licking (one's) lips be licking your lips be light on be light on (one's) feet be light on (something) be light on something be light on your feet be light years away be light years away from be light-headed be like a bear with a sore head be like a bull in a china shop be like a cat on a hot tin roof be like a cat on hot bricks be like a child in a sweetshop be like a deer caught in the headlights be like a dog with a bone be like a dog with two tails be like a fish out of water be like a kid in a candy store be like a red flag to a bull be like a red rag to a bull be like a spare prick at a wedding be like an open book