with impunity

with impunity

Without fear or risk of punishment; while being immune to or exempt from negative consequences. The son of the wealthy politician has been getting away with all sorts of stuff with impunity for years, knowing that Daddy will just bail him out and pay off the law whenever he gets caught. Just because they are the CEOs of massive corporations doesn't mean they can do whatever they want with impunity.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

with impunity

without risk of punishment; with immunity from the negative consequences of an act; while being exempt from punishment. The diplomat parked in illegal parking spaces with impunity. Bob used his brother's property with impunity.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • marry into money
  • be born with a silver spoon in (one's) mouth
  • be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
  • born with a silver spoon in (one's) mouth
  • born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth
  • born with a silver spoon in mouth
  • born with a silver spoon in your mouth
  • born with a silver spoon
  • get off scot-free
  • get off/go scot-free
References in classic literature
Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.
Such is the king to whom Viking chieftains bowed their heads, and whom the modern and palatial steamship defies with impunity seven times a week.
Hence, there is no legal protection in fact, whatever there may be in form, for the slave population; and any amount of cruelty may be inflicted on them with impunity. Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?
The Scotia, divided into seven compartments by strong partitions, could brave with impunity any leak.
They passed some little time at the camp; saw, no doubt, that everything was conducted with military skill and vigilance; and that such an enemy was not to be easily surprised, nor to be molested with impunity, and then departed, to report all that they had seen to their comrades.
Moors and Jews sometimes place themselves under the protection of the foreign consuls, and then they can flout their riches in the Emperor's face with impunity.
You think so, because you're his sister; and, on that account, I'll forgive you; but nobody else should so disparage Arthur Huntingdon to me with impunity.'
However, though he was not guilty of ill manners by rebuking a gentleman in his own house, he paid him off obliquely in the pulpit: which had not, indeed, the good effect of working a reformation in the squire himself; yet it so far operated on his conscience, that he put the laws very severely in execution against others, and the magistrate was the only person in the parish who could swear with impunity.
I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity. This evening it was not I observed it, but judging by the impression made on the company, everyone observed that your conduct and deportment were not altogether what could be desired."
The report said the corrupt operate with impunity and use their positions, with the help of the state, to encroach on the freedom and democracy of Kenyans.
by appropriating the power of the state with impunity. (104)
Just as the previous PM tried to get away with impunity by compromising our democratic institutions, the new PH government must ensure that no leader should be allowed to get away with impunity for any transgressions against accountability and loss of the national coffers.
You kill with impunity," Duterte told the gathering for the 2016 Presidential Award for Child Friendly Municipalities and Cities in Malacaaang yesterday.
It is unacceptable that human rights continue to be violated today and still meet with impunity. It is unacceptable that journalists and media workers are being kidnapped, tortured and killed and that perpetrators are not held accountable.
ISLAMABAD -- 'There is a systematic erosion of freedom of expression in the name of ideology and national security on the one hand and crimes against media persons are being committed with impunity on the other'.