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
Half of the fellows didn't wash at all, and all we Scouts were allowed to do was to wash our faces, with a lick and a promise, at the creek, under guard.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
It ought not to surprise the reader when I say that my morning toilet was hasty—something less than "a lick and a promise."
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
Mrs Day was not in the habit of "givin' things a lick and a promise" nowadays when she cleaned house.
From Janice Day at Poketown by Long, Helen Beecher
