"get away with murder" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1980, Gore Vidal, Robert J. Stanton, Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal, L. Stuart, page 245",
          "text": "Just yesterday it was fashionable to be black. Remember? Any black writer could get away with murder, just as any Jewish-American writer can get away with murder.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, James Purdy, On Glory's Course, Viking Press, page 147",
          "text": "He'd spoil the boy just as we have all spoiled him, and though he's a big strapping fellow and a soldier at that, he'd let Ned get away with murder just as I've done.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Claudia Bishop, Marinade for Murder, Berkley",
          "text": "It's because you let people get away with murder, Quill.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, James M. Hill, Sr., I Have Been Blessed!: Hard Work and Happiness, Aforesight Press, page 205",
          "text": "He said I found out about everything he did and said, 'I can't get away with nothing, and Jim can get away with murder.' I don't think that I let any of my kids get away with murder, and I don't think any one of them ever did much serious mischief.",
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        "(idiomatic) To do something bad or illegal and not be punished."
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "to get dry out of the water",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "výjti suxím iz vodý",
          "word": "вы́йти сухи́м из воды́"
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      "form": "gotten away with murder",
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        {
          "ref": "1984, James Purdy, On Glory's Course, Viking Press, page 147",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Claudia Bishop, Marinade for Murder, Berkley",
          "text": "It's because you let people get away with murder, Quill.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "He said I found out about everything he did and said, 'I can't get away with nothing, and Jim can get away with murder.' I don't think that I let any of my kids get away with murder, and I don't think any one of them ever did much serious mischief.",
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      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to get dry out of the water",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výjti suxím iz vodý",
      "word": "вы́йти сухи́м из воды́"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get away with murder"
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