get away with
verbo transitivo con partícula
1. salir impune de (crime)
- I don't know how you g away with speaking to your mother like that -> no entiendo cómo tu madre te permite que le hables así
- he got away with a small fine -> sólo le han puesto una pequeña multa
- that child gets away with murder! (sentido figurado) -> ¡ese niño se sale siempre con la suya!
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get away with
verb:intransitive:plus_preposition
2 (go unpunished)
he got away with an official warning solo se llevó una amonestación; we can get away with just repainting it bastará con volver a pintarlo; do you think I'd be able to get away with a trouser suit? ¿crees que iré bien con un traje pantalón?; ¿crees que pasará algo si llevo un traje pantalón?
we mustn't let them get away with it no debemos dejar que salgan impunes
he broke the law and got away with it infringió la ley y no le pillaron; you won't get away with it! (with past action) ¡esto no va a quedar así!; (with possible action) esto no te lo van a consentir; he'll never get away with it nunca se va a salir con la suya
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