| 词汇 | a slap on the wrist |
| 释义 | a slap on the wrista slap on the wrist PUNISHa punishment that you think is not severe enough 轻微的惩罚 Examples from the Corpus a slap on the wrist• They just gave him a slap on the wrist then and that enabled him to go out and kill my husband.• So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms.• In the past, officers who mistreated prisoners often received a mere slap on the wrist.• The fine was so low, it was little more than a slap on the wrist. → a slap on the wrist at slap2(2) |
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