Sentence examples for gets a slap from inspiring English sources

With Groucho, she gets a slap in the face.

"Now and again someone gets a slap," says Donna, who lost her front teeth in a row over territory and never got around to replacing them.

Poor Inge tells her mother that she's pregnant, and gets a slap and the full "no daughter of mine" speech for her trouble.

Whereas a guy who could hurt someone gets a slap on the wrist.

The officer gets a slap on the wrist, and there's not much more than that.

But an officer gets a slap on the wrist by serving five years and paying $7,500 in fines?" Sutton said of the maximum sentence Servin could have faced.

But Mike Poulton has adapted this neglected piece from 1848 and, after earlier showings in Chichester (1996) and New York (2002), it finally gets a slap-up London production from Lucy Bailey.

"They got a slap on the wrist," Mr. Rapino said.

"He'll probably get a slap in the hand.

"You are not going to get a slap on the wrist.

Gone are the days when price-fixers got a slap on the wrist.