get (someone) off

Definition

› to escape legal punishment, or to help someone escape legal punishment: She was charged with fraud, but her lawyer got her off. › If you get off with a particular punishment, or if someone gets you off, it means that the punishment could have been much more severe: He got off with a suspended sentence of three years for practicing medicine without a license.

(Definition of get (someone) off from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)