If you simply want to get away but do not need to go anywhere in particular, keep your options open.
But MPs can't get away with simply pasting their current penchant for flimsy policy into an online format, hope people click on it, and be done with it.
Five years ago, marketers could get away with simply using the same ads they used globally and just translating the message, said Shaun Rein, the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group.
Android tablets with seven-inch displays can get away with simply scaling-up the 700,000 or so apps developed for Android phones of similar proportions.
In these sectors the company lacks the incredible leverage it has in software, so it can't get away with simply being a bully.
David Cameron could get away with simply patting his pregnant wife's bump, a New Man gesture that was also, of course, a gesture of proprietorship and potency.
Let's hope that the department can get away with simply referring this dangerous "demand" to the inspector general, because "investigating the investigators" is a tried-and-true authoritarian tactic to escape accountability.
In March last year, Japan's prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, promised his Chinese counterpart, Li Peng, that Japan would respond to the Chemical Weapons Convention "with sincerity"—in other words, foot the bill.Japan had hoped to get away with simply building a factory ship that would process the poisonous gases and toxic chemicals in a Chinese port and float away when the job was done.
The 1996 movie was made at the height of Quentin Tarantino's popularity when the director was so indulged that he was allowed to get away with simply writing the movie and handing the directing duties to Robert Rodriguez, all so that he could take on one of the lead roles opposite George Clooney.
This is the kind of thing one can get away with simply by asserting it, rather than reaching a conclusion you have to support and argue for – although it helps if you don't draw attention to the con quite so starkly as that.
