off the hook

"He played poor and let me off the hook," O'Sullivan said.

"We were a little bit untidy. Our maul could have been better and we let them off the hook at times," he told BBC.

"At home, I hugged my mother, and we cried together for a while. Then cousins and friends started to arrive, and the phone was ringing off the hook."

Will, who works for an environmental nonprofit, argues that humans won’t be able to recycle their way out of the crisis and that harping on personal responsibility only lets corporate perpetrators off the hook.

The Dodgers did get Glasnow off the hook for the loss in the sixth.