I'd taken my phone off the hook in order to get some sleep.

我把电话听筒拿了下来，以便可以睡会儿觉。

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Sure a bouquet of flowers or some other last minute gift would be nice and probably get you off the hook but what would that mother really want to do for that special day?

一束鲜花或一些最后一刻的礼物肯定不错，也许还让你摆脱困境。 但是妈妈在那个特别的日子最想做什么呢？

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Rather than working out how to skewer Mr Cameron, European leaders would do better thinking what they can offer him that might get him off the hook with his more rabid backbenchers.

欧洲领导人与其想出办法把卡梅隆置于困境中，还不如考虑如何帮助卡梅隆摆脱那些更加激进的后座议员们的困扰。

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This new anti-fraud rule, they contend, would potentially make it easier for broker dealers to get off the hook.

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U. presidency at the end of June, is likely to want to declare the constitution dead in the water to get off the hook of its own referendum, due in 2006.

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However, this is the point where it becomes critical to understand the mechanism that allows these folks to get off the hook when it comes to paying federal income taxes a mechanism that comes in the guise of two, specific government policies the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC).

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