slap on
Example Sentences
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“If it had been six months earlier, they would have given us a slap on the hand,” he said.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
After a prolonged legal battle between Elon Musk and U.S. regulators over his past purchase of Twitter shares, the technology CEO is getting off with little more than a slap on the wrist.
From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026
The 36-year-old's victim, Ismail Qureshi, described the sentence as "a slap on the wrist".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
The first is that nobody should call our food system “broken,” the all-purpose label that armchair revolutionaries slap on any aspect of the messy human condition that doesn’t measure up.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
In that case, then, the way I’d talked about her slap on the elbow thing could be seen as a betrayal, and she might well then have felt justified retaliating as she had.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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