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slap on the wrist en · NOUN

Synonym of wrist-slap.
- Although he permitted "slap on the wrist" against the procurement personnel who misprocured on the basis of incorrect technical information, he did nothing against those technical personnel who "perpetrated misconceptions" and disseminated "statements which were inaccurate, unproven, inconsistent" and who were "biased against JRL interests" and who thus misled these procurement personnel. 1983, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs, Management of the Department of Defense, page 29:
- He got a slap on the wrist, but I don't think he'll reform.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, wrist.

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slaps on the wrist	Number=Plur		lexicographic
slaps on wrists	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Synonym of wrist-slap.
- Gorbachev played a skillful diplomatic game in Asia. While enhancing Soviet relations with South Korea—moving from no ties to full diplomatic relations in only three years— he continued to back North Korea, though slapping its leader on the wrist for its nuclear program. While Soviet trade with South Korea will rise from $85 million in 1985 to an estimated $1 billion in 1995, Moscow continued to provide $1 billion in aid to North Korea and to equip the 1.1 million troops in its armed forces with Soviet weapons. 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, wrist.

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slapping on the wrist	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
slapped on the wrist	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
slapped on the wrist	Tense=Past	lexicographic
slaps on the wrist	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic