Sentence examples for only slap on from inspiring English sources

If the hostages prevail against Iran, it will be "the only slap on the wrist they'll ever get for what they did 20 years ago," he said.

Maybe you'll luck out and they'll only slap a gigantic fine on you.

She responds: "You've got to be careful that you're not implicitly condoning this behavior by only slapping people on the wrist... and I think that this administration is politically pandering to it base".

"You have to deserve the right to give a slap — also, you can only slap somebody you care about.

The House bill, for example, provides only a slap on the wrist to lenders that violate the law.

When one considers the sleazy way she maneuvered to get lucrative pension investments for her clients, that is only a slap on the wrist.

When a police officer told Ms. Lightner that the man who had killed her daughter would probably receive only a slap on the wrist, she was incredulous and livid.

Initially the bankers, who paid the bill with their own money, received only a slap on the wrist for having spent so lavishly -- and having been documented doing so in newspapers at the time -- while Barclays, like other banks here, was trying to project a new sobriety as an antidote to the excesses of the 1990's.

But Hermosa Beach police officers have let the vast majority of offenders go with only a slap on the wrist.

The groundbreaking drafting of Michael Sam by the St . LouisRams went a long way after years of anti-gay tirades by players getting only a slap on the wrist from the NFL.

But the resulting settlement gave banks only a perfunctory slap on the wrist, and only token assistance to the homeowners.