get a slap on the wrist
понести небольшое наказание
The principal gave the student a slap on the wrist for having damaged a piece of school furniture.
Другие идиомы:
- get one's walking papers
- get through (a course or set of material)
- get a raise
- get a foothold (somewhere)
- get one's feet wet
- get on one's high horse
- get out of a jam
- get into the act
- get down to brass tacks
- get along in years
- get the upper hand (on someone)
- get the worst of (something)
- get a clean bill of health
- get a whiff of (something)
- get the shock of one's life