A slap on the wrist is a small penalty. It refers to someone getting away with something without having much of a consequence.
Imagine that someone did something wrong and all they got was a little slap on the wrist - not a really bad punishment, right? This idiom means that someone didn't get the punishment they deserved, but just got a little bit of one.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
The idiom a slap on the wrist refers to a trivial punishment.
He should have gotten a big fine, but the judge just gave him a slap on the wrist and sent him home.
The victim was badly injured, so a sentence of community service is no more than a slap on the wrist.
The meaning of the idiom "to slap the back off you" is fairly straightforward. It implies an exaggeration, that one would slap someone else so hard that their back would come off.
Imagine that someone did something wrong and all they got was a little slap on the wrist - not a really bad punishment, right? This idiom means that someone didn't get the punishment they deserved, but just got a little bit of one.
The judge's sentence was little more than a slap on the wrist. They all thought the criminal had gotten of with a slap on the wrist.
The judge gave him a light sentence, it was just a slap on the wrist.
He who phrases questions in an undignified manner will suffer more than a slap on the wrist.
wrist
You slap them on your wrist which then makes it form into a bracelet, there for it gets the name "slap" bracelet
no you hut it with your wrist
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.