| 释义 |
beat the rapNorth American informal Escape punishment for or be acquitted of a crime: on appeal, he beat this rap by a tricky legal technicality...- Pearson's book reveals the unseemly tactics that accused women use to beat the rap.
- She beat the rap in August, acquitted of all charges by a federal jury in Memphis.
- Even before the crimes were committed, the White House was planning how to beat the rap.
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