a lick and a promise
*a lick and a promise
Fig. a hasty bit of work; a quick once-over. (*Typically: finish something with ~; give something ~.)
I was pressed for time, so I just gave the housework a lick and a promise.
Mary spent so much time on her history paper that she had to finish her math homework with a lick and a promise.
热门单词
- acquaint so with sth
- advise so of sth
- a glut on the market
- a grandfather clause
- air one's dirty linen in public
- a kangaroo court
- all by one's lonesome
- alongside
- along with so or sth
- alphabet
- an absent-minded professor
- annex
- an open-and-shut case
- answer the door
- a pat answer
- approve of so or sth
- april
- (Are you) doing okay?
- a rocky road
- a rotten apple
- arrange sth for some time
