get out of jail free card

English

Etymology

An element of the boardgame Monopoly

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

  • Get Out of Jail Free card, Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
  • Get Out Of Jail Free card, Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card
  • get-out-of-jail-free card

Noun

get out of jail free card (plural get out of jail free cards)

  1. (idiomatic) something that will relieve an undesired situation

Synonyms

Last modified on 29 March 2012, at 15:03