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get off lightly Definition


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lightly
adverb
    1a. In a light, gentle or effortless manner.
      Thesaurus: gently, gingerly, delicately, nimbly, deftly, easily, effortlessly.
    1b. In a carefree or thoughtless manner.
      Thesaurus: cheerfully, merrily, gaily, airily, breezily, carelessly, thoughtlessly, offhandedly, frivolously.
    2. Slightly.
Idiom: get off lightly
    To escape without serious rebuke or punishment.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.



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