get a slap on the wrist
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The principal gave the student a slap on the wrist for having damaged a piece of school furniture.
Другие идиомы:
- get one's knuckles rapped
- get cold feet
- get the shock of one's life
- get across
- get the lead out
- get into the swing of things
- get to first base
- get a rise out of someone
- get a checkup
- get (something) out of one's system
- get it into one's head to (do something)
- get the eye from (someone)
- get the go-ahead
- get off the ground
- get a toehold (somewhere)