The theory is like a get-out-of-jail-free card for big banks, Blum says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Banker Can't Get Arrested in This Town] Reference

It was, as one of the reporters there put it, a "get-out-of-jail-free card.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Teddy Kennedy's Speech Endorsing Obama] Reference

My counselor said that for some women, it's like a get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Challenges Of Learning To Be A Widow] Reference

This Wright thing has been a get-out-of-jail-free card for a whole lot of crazies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video] Reference

"Somebody has given the wind industry a get-out-of-jail-free card," Mr. Fry told me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Windmills Are Killing Our Birds] Reference

The system is not outdated; it is a get-out-of-jail-free card for Wall Street bandits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Scheer: Getting Warmer] Reference

And the fact still stands that Congress gave the telecoms a get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming To Terms With Obama's FISA Vote] Reference

Disney get-out-of-jail-free card to several artists to put their own spin on Walt's baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Doubly so if they also hand more gasoline and a get-out-of-jail-free card to the arsonists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » ABC Can’t Find Economists Who Think the Stimulus Failed] Reference

But driving it was as close as I've even come to thinking I had a get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercury falling - Reflections on Mercury and its cars] Reference

The English may be flawed but it's good enough to include the get-out-of-jail-free card 'can'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Being a high official in the White House should not entitle you to a get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2005] Reference

Up until yesterday, big banks thought they had a get-out-of-jail-free card on investor lawsuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zach Carter: Foreclosure-Gate Fallout: How Bad Can It Get For Wall Street?] Reference

That is especially true given the lack of an obvious get-out-of-jail-free card for policymakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [History suggests 2011 will be a year of living frugally] Reference

Jimmy Gagnon was a wild one, and he used his father as his own personal get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone]

And it should impose limits, not simply supplying get-out-of-jail-free cards whenever the hero needs them.    From Wordnik.com.  [SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why] Reference

And then there was Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17, the get-out-of-jail-free card for contractors.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Isenberg: Armed Humanitarians: Part 1] Reference

That Bill and Libby were on the same side when it came to giving crooked cronies get-out-of-jail-free cards?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gore Weighs In On Libby Commutation] Reference

But it also gave him a "get-out-of-jail-free" card from what could have been a value-destroying acquisition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barclays May Win by Losing ABN] Reference

"In Monopoly, they would say, 'Do not go past go,'" he said, "and you don't get a get-out-of-jail-free card.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Job 1 for Gray: Helping to reduce persistent D.C. unemployment] Reference

The terrorists win when people allow the situation to become a get-out-of-jail-free card for paranoid racists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

"I don't see this as some get-out-of-jail-free card," he says, noting that banks are highly regulated companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasury Lets 10 Banks Repay $68 Billion in Bailout Cash] Reference

Tesoro shareholders have their board to thank for giving Mr. Kerkorian this particular get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citi Still on Rocky Terrain] Reference

In some states, they really only apply to a pro se and have a “get-out-of-jail-free” clasue of reaonable belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Clinics Under Siege] Reference

Some of the get-out-of-jail-free crowd thinks that the reason Polanski should go free is because he's a gifted artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Turley: Roman Polanski and the Distorted Media Hype] Reference

Clearly, these boys don't deserve a near get-out-of-jail-free card à la OJ and Rodney King and Reginald Denny's attackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne M. Plant: What the Jena 6 Meant to a Little White Girl] Reference

There's the wrap-up approach adopted by Battlestar Galactica, which used the get-out-of-jail-free card of divine intervention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Season finale frenzy: 'Lost'] Reference

Race these days has become a figurative, and too often literal, get-out-of-jail-free card, at least for ‘people of color.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Gates-Type Encounters with Police Happen Every Day, Irregardless of Race] Reference

When Obama proved he could perform this most basic function in politics, it was a get-out-of-jail-free card for many Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Democrats Have a Nominee] Reference

If they pull it off, it gives Rand a get-out-of-jail-free card in case anybody like us ever gets a clue about all these murders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

In 'UK Coddles Hacker with Aspergers', they suggest that McKinnon believes his diagnosis grants him a get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autistic Hacker fights Extradition] Reference

Unless they get caught with a live boy or a dead girl, it is business-as-usual and even THEN they are given a get-out-of-jail-free card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Anderson: Right vs Left: Slipping Into Darkness Part 1] Reference

According to Amore, in North America in recent years there have been cases where "art is stolen as a sort of get-out-of-jail-free card.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Potatoes] Reference

I have a get-out-of-jail-free card, my brother, signed by my Masters, who willneverallow their loose ends to dangle, especially in jail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godot Finally Shows!] Reference

If they go overboard it is the get-out-of-jail-free card that allows them to throw up their hands, palms out, and disavow responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [A View From Abroad] Reference