off the hook

基本解釋

Men – you are not off the hook.
先生——您是不是還沒有擺脫困境。
But what they detest is the idea that it might let feckless Italians and Portuguese off the hook.
但是他們討厭他們實(shí)行的解救歐元區(qū)的計(jì)劃也會(huì)讓意大利和葡萄牙擺脫困境。
Up to now, many non-government organisations, including Brazilian ones, have been wary of market systems for limiting carbon emissions, saying that they risk letting rich-world emitters off the hook.
到目前為止，包括巴西在內(nèi)的許多非政府組織，對(duì)利用市場(chǎng)機(jī)制來限制二氧化碳的排放持謹(jǐn)慎態(tài)度，他們說這樣做會(huì)讓富裕的污染排放國擺脫困境。

No one gets off the hook on this one -- from governments to schools, corporations to nonprofits, all the way down to families sitting around their dinner table."
I don't know what this tells us about David and Nina, but don't let them off the hook quite yet.
從大衛(wèi)和妮娜的協(xié)調(diào)中得不出什么結(jié)論,這事兒還沒結(jié)束呢
耶魯公開課 - 博弈論課程節(jié)選
You’re off the hook.
什么都可以解決。
便利的社交媒體 - SpeakingMax英語口語達(dá)人

Thanks to the Securities and Exchange Commission, your phone is ringing off the hook.
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If you leave the phone off the hook, you do not put it back correctly and it will not ring.
If you are off the hook, you have escaped from a difficult situation.