lick and a promise
Example Sentences
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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
“A lick and a promise and we’re ready to go.”
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
And when you polish your shoes in the morning preparatory to starting your day's work, do you just give them "a lick and a promise," or do you "make 'em shine?"
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
He wudden't know whether I swept or dusted rightly, or whether I gave the place a lick and a promise.
From In the Onyx Lobby by Wells, Carolyn
