Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
scot-free , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
- adjective obsolete Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free.
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Examples
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Whether shot-free, meaning free from either a tax or another kind of shot, or scot-free, the terms came to mean “unpunished” with a connotation of unfair escape from responsibility.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Whether shot-free, meaning free from either a tax or another kind of shot, or scot-free, the terms came to mean “unpunished” with a connotation of unfair escape from responsibility.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Whether shot-free, meaning free from either a tax or another kind of shot, or scot-free, the terms came to mean “unpunished” with a connotation of unfair escape from responsibility.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Whether shot-free, meaning free from either a tax or another kind of shot, or scot-free, the terms came to mean “unpunished” with a connotation of unfair escape from responsibility.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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He ended his shot-free, point-free status for the series.
USATODAY.com - Penguins rally to draw even in series with Devils 2001
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But, by your leave, as the fellow thought to have departed thence shot-free, the master-cook laid hold upon him by the gorget, and demanded payment for the smoke of his roast meat.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But, by your leave, as the fellow thought to have departed thence shot-free, the master-cook laid hold upon him by the gorget, and demanded payment for the smoke of his roast meat.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Though I could scape shot-free at London, I fear the shot here; heres no scoring but upon the pate.
Act V. Scene III. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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It might have contented a reasonable man to have said, that no good argument could be brought against it: but he is jealous of his hypothesis, and can never think it safe till it be shot-free; nor will that content him, but it must also be impossible for any one to make a show of shooting at it.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820
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It was no small griefe to the Conncell and Company, to vnderstand of such a supposed impossible losse, as that so many should fall by the hands of men so contemptible; and yet hauing such warnings, especially by the death of Nemattanow, whom the Saluages did thinke was shot-free, as he had perswaded them, hauing so long escaped so many dangers without any hurt.
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