give (someone) a slap on the wrist
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Пример использования идиомы give (someone) a slap on the wrist:
A few high school students were taken to the police station and given a slap on the wrist because they had been playing truant.
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Другие идиомы:
- give (someone) pause to think
- give (someone) an inch and they will take a mile
- give (someone) a blank check
- give (someone) a hard time
- give way
- give (someone or something) the thumbs up
- give three cheers for (someone)
- give (someone) a run for their money
- don't give up the ship
- give the devil his due
- give a little
- give (someone) enough rope and they will hang themselves
- give (someone) a black eye
- give (someone) the runaround
- give (someone) the slip