Sentences with phrase «really let you off the hook»

Will it really let you off the hook that easily?

Man City and their thumping at the hands of Liverpool really let us off the hook.

Manchester City's loss didn't really let us off the hook.

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As pastors, letting ourselves off the hook by appealing to our sympathy for people's fragility and limits robs us of some of our most rewarding opportunities to confirm our ministry in a church that really looks like a church rather than a social club.

I knew when Bush cited the 1,000 points of light he really meant for people to take over care of the poor to let government i.e. wealthy tax payers off the hook.

We could have really hurt them with our height advantage on the set pieces and we definitely let them off the hook in this regard.

Although Jon admitted it was a really stupid thing to do (and, of course, swore he'd never do it again) Melissa felt like she couldn't let him off the hook that easily.

In the same vein, research shows a common tendency among aggressive and angry drivers is to let themselves off the hook by blaming external factors for their own behavior («I had a really bad day at work.»).

Though she later told JCI she was sympathetic to the idea of the state's need to take additional measures to help teachers rated in less affluent, urban districts such as Jersey City, which tend to have tougher classroom environments, parent Gina Po told the round - table it really can't let them off the hook.

I got a bit tense during the blow - dry at the end, as I'd parked in a two - hour zone and didn't fancy an additional $ 80 parking fine on top of a prohibitive hairdressing bill, so I let him off the hook on giving me the full treatment («no, no, damp is totally fine, really.