free pass
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The “I’d Be Lyin’” singer added that she loves and supports small businesses “but you don’t get a free pass to treat people less than in your store just because you are a small business.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Is there something so odious about a reworked design that the only way to hustle it across the finish line is to give it a free pass?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Austria gets a free pass because it won last year, and is hosting this year's festivities.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Being pro-business doesn’t mean giving corporate bad actors a free pass to prey on the people who make their profits possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
“That gives her a free pass to act like an idiot?”
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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