English-Thai Dictionary

scot-free

ADV อย่าง ไม่ได้ รับ การ ลงโทษ  อย่าง ลอยนวล  footloose liberated uncontrolled unharm safe yang-mai-dai-rab-kan-long-tod

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCOT-FREE

SCOT-FREE Scot "-free " [], a.

 

Defn: Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe. Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass scot-free. Sir W. Scott. Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland. A. Lang.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

scot-free

scot-free |ˈˌskɑt ˈˌfri | ▶adverb without suffering any punishment or injury: the people who kidnapped you will get off scot-free . ORIGIN from the early sense ‘not subject to the payment of scot. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

scot-free

scot-free ▶adverb without suffering any punishment or injury: the people who kidnapped you will get off scot-free . ORIGIN from the early sense ‘not subject to the payment of scot ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

scot-free

scot-free adverb the small-time dealers are behind bars, while the big bosses go scot-free: unpunished, without punishment; unscathed, unhurt, unharmed, without a scratch; safely.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

scot-free

scot-free adverb the real criminals behind the racket are getting away scot-free: unpunished, without punishment, unreprimanded; unscathed, unhurt, unharmed, without a scratch, uninjured, undamaged, safe; rare scatheless.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

scot-free

sc ò t-fr é e 副詞 ｟くだけて ｠罰を免れて, 無事に (!主に次の句で ) ▸ get away [get off, go, escape ] scot-free (受けるはずの )罰を受けずに済む, 無事に逃れる .