scot-free [
'skɑt'fri]
a. 不受处罚的, 无伤的, 平安的
[法] 免于受罪的, 未受损害的, 免税的
Scot-free \Scot"-free"\ [?], a.
Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear;
safe.
Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass
scot-free. --Sir W.
Scott.
Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland. --A. Lang.
- "Others are relatively scot-free," said Mr. Olick of the New York firm Anderson Russell Kill & Olick.
- "Nobody can look at what RKO has been through and say they're getting off scot-free," she said.
- Yet to leave Mr Honecker scot-free, after young border guards have been tried and sentenced for shooting would-be escapers to the west (which they did with his approval and authority, if not on his direct orders), is clearly impossible.
- "They did not get off scot-free," Mr. Wallance says.
- But "Emery doesn't get away scot-free," says Andrew B. Kim, an analyst at F. Eberstadt Fleming Inc., adding that Emery's debt would "triple to $300 million from $100 million."
- If they catch up with you, you pay a couple of thousand dollars and you go scot-free."
- "I've already accomplished one of my major victories _ to make Maynard campaign," Williams said last week. "If it hadn't been for me, he would have walked back into City Hall scot-free." But Williams has not gotten exactly the fight he sought.