get off easy

[get off easy] {v. phr.}, {informal}

To have only a little trouble; escape something worse.

* /The children who missed school to go to the fair got off easy./

* /John got off easy because it was the first time he had taken his father's car without permission./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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