lick and a promise
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Dismissed foreign policy and foreign trade with a lick and a promise.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malachy whispers our wash was a lick and a promise, that’s what Mam would say.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Do hair with a lick and a promise and beat all the other girls to the table.
From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
I shall but give it a lick and a promise; just mop up the wet, and dry the grate, and get a bit of fire alight.
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
I'll have things somewhere near shipshape by then, I guess, though the cleanin'll have to be mainly a lick and a promise until I can really get at it.
From Keziah Coffin by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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