beat the rap

If I had been his lawyer, he would have beat the rap.

"Because then there'd be no way you could beat the rap!"

"If it happened the way you say, you've got at least an even chance of beating the rap in court."

He may beat the rap and, someday, come back as chairman.

Do you think I'll beat the rap in the end?"

He, in turn, says he'll beat the rap, and I'd better be careful when he's out.

His lawyer says the same thing, he doesn't stand a chance to beat the rap.

He might have been afraid that with money to spend she would beat the rap and be left laughing at him.

"If this guy beats the rap, it sure as hell better happen down in Florida."

"Show me some scheme by which I can beat the rap.

Their goal isn't to beat the rap when they're caught.

He's trying to help his sister beat the rap.

So he has begun a kind of one-man legal campaign to beat the rap.

"She was able to beat the rap with excellent supportive care.

"I had to beat the rap of being a shooting guard in a point guard's body," he said.

If she didn't beat the rap, and got sent up, her money would be just as thoroughly beyond his reach.

It may be a developmental form of beating the rap, a mixed blessing.

None of the charges stuck except the assault, and in that case, he beat the rap.

Now, he said, the law "opens the door for murderers to use advances in medical technology to beat the rap."

Do you think with all his money, all his power, he might beat the rap?

"I'm going to beat the rap if I can.

How'm I going to bust his box and beat the rap, if they stick around?

These supporters take what they call the "common sense" view, and point to advertisements saying that detectors can "help you beat the rap."

Before they get too excited, though, they should be aware that Sanchez could beat the rap.

He makes a convincing case, for example, that a spy caught in the West can very likely beat the rap simply by refusing to confess.