See get out of jail free card in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "An element of the board game Monopoly, allowing a player to leave the \"jail\" square immediately, without missing game turns.",
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"ref": "2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.35",
"text": "\"I don't care to know who spanked her or looked at her cross-eyed when she was little.\"\n\"Trust me, Henry,\" Ivy said. \"It goes way beyond spanking.\"\n\"So that gives her a get-out-of-jail-free card?\"\n\"Of course it doesn't. What I am saying is―\"\n\"No, here's what I'm saying. She's combative, she refuses to do the work, and if she shows up in my class wearing those penis earrings again, she's going to get the boot, same as she got today.\""
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"ref": "2020 March 30, A.J. Goodman, “R. v. T.K., 2020 ONSC 1935”, in CanLII, retrieved 2023-09-14:",
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