free ride

Sixty people had called a hotline that offered to give people a free ride to the polls to vote early.

In her daughter’s documentary, Ethel conceded that she had endured “a lot of loss” but added: “Nobody gets a free ride. ... So you have your wits about you and dig in and do what you can.”

“The automakers’ free ride is over,” said Pete Huffman, a senior attorney at NRDC.

Kids who jumped the train for a free ride would curl their middle fingers to mimic Kalili’s injured hand, giving other train-jumpers the all-clear, said Steve Sue, who researched shaka for his documentary.

Under Biden, the IRS has been able to start reversing the historical free ride on tax compliance enjoyed by corporations and the rich.