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

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

Here the men washed, and here, too, our buckets were filled each morning for the "lick and a promise" that served as a substitute for a bath.

From From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Curry, Frederic C.

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