get the benefit of the doubt
оправдать кого-либо (за недостаточностью улик)
Tim Osgood was tried for burglary but got the benefit of the doubt.
Другие идиомы:
- get (someone's) number
- get ready
- get away
- get along on a shoestring
- get (something) off one's chest
- get engaged
- get one's feet wet
- get the runaround
- get under way
- get (someone) out of one's hair
- get up the nerve to (do something)
- get credit for (a course)
- get off one's high horse
- get (something) out of the way
- get one's own way