Synonym: off the hook. Similar words: off-the-wall, off the rack, on the hop, off the cuff, by hook or by crook, off the track, go off the air, off the record. Meaning: adj. freed from danger or blame or obligation.
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1, He left the phone off the hook so that he wouldn't be disturbed.
2, She must have left the phone off the hook.
3, I wasn't prepared to let her off the hook that easily.
4, His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
5, The phone has been ringing off the hook with offers of help.
6, He left the phone off the hook as he didn't want to be disturbed.
7, He counted on his friends to get him off the hook.
8, I left the phone off the hook, so it wouldn't ring.
9, Then I left the phone off the hook.
10, It would let wrongdoers off the hook.
11, Parents were let off the hook.
12, Social injustices were let off the hook.
13, Poverty was let off the hook.
14, Morrissey took the phone off the hook and retreated to a London flat.
15, She took the phone off the hook,(sentencedict.com) and threw herself into her hurt.
16, A change of clothing also lets you off the hook.
17, He'd thrown the receiver off the hook, but she was haranguing the empty line, demanding he reply.
18, It could even, in a pinch, get him off the hook for the nightly walk to the monument.
19, I must have left it off the hook this morning.
20, The phone was ringing off the hook here all weekend.
21, She could have lifted it off the hook, she could have rung the police,(http://sentencedict.com/off the hook.html) except that fear had immobilised her.
22, His creative process involves holing up in his Paris flat with the phone off the hook.
23, I couldn't get through because you'd left the phone off the hook.
24, I've been trying to phone him all day?he must have left his telephone off the hook.
25, John's agreed to go to the meeting in my place so that gets/lets me off the hook.
26, Since war broke out, the phones at donation centers have been ringing off the hook.
27, He'd decided to make Sandra wait before letting her off the hook.
28, Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon, rather than letting me off the hook, only improved the tale.
29, In reality, however, the Tory tactics simply had the effect of getting a deeply reluctant Labour Party off the hook.
30, Wall-mount your phone to save it from being kicked or left off the hook.
More similar words: off-the-wall, off the rack, on the hop, off the cuff, by hook or by crook, off the track, go off the air, off the record, on the horizon, right off the bat, get off the ground, go off the deep end, keep off the grass, behoove, falsehood, statehood, take the bull by the horns, hook, put the cart before the horse, hookah, hook up, hooked, cookbook, he has, hit the hay, in the heat of, over the hill, with the help of, bury the hatchet, get into the habit of.