get (one) off the hook

To free one from the responsibility of having to complete some task; to help one to avoid something. Thank you for getting me off the hook for Saturday—I was dreading having to babysit at 6 AM on my day off! Can you please tell mom that you broke the vase and get me off the hook?

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aron	AH-rawn (Polish), AH-ron (Croatian)	Polish, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
Marcella	[ma:'selə]
Chang	-	Chinese
Tau	-	Southern African, Tswana, Sotho
Otgonbayar	-	Mongolian
Margareta	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German), MAHR-gah-re-tah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovene, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian