Meanings of escape scot in English

However, I'm glad to say, he didn't escape scot-free after all.

I didn't intend to let the villain escape scot free for what he had done.

If so, Glenarvan and his companions would escape scot free, except for a few vigorous douche baths.

If I had fancied we were to escape scot free, we would most surely have got a scolding.

It ran through Mrs. French's mind that unless something were done at once, Mr. Gibson would escape scot free.

Is he to be sent to the Assizes by himself, tried and convicted, while his comrades escape scot free?

Or do you really expect to escape scot-free after making the sign of the cross over so many lost souls.

For can we hope a thorough reformation, according to the mind of Christ, if opposers of reformation may escape scot-free, undiscovered and unpunished?

I suffer so much, just now, in this world, for last night's joviality, that I shall escape scot-free for it in the world to come.

Ours was the only house that escaped scot free, for thirty miles round.

She made no further inquiry, and the boys escaped scot free.

His leap aside had served him well, after all: he had nearly escaped scot free.

Wanaka retailers appear to have escaped scot free after opening their doors over the Easter long weekend.

As Phillips mentioned, Cilic copped a warning for time wasting in the second set but Nadal escaped scot-free.

I suppose he has escaped scot-free?

The Marquis escaped scot-free.