英语词汇“a lick and a promise”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. colloquial. A slight and hasty wash (usually a lick and a promise). Also, a dab of paint, etc.; a hasty tidying up, a casual amount of work.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > of something which makes a mark

touch1569

lickc1648

pop1718

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > an act of washing > hasty

cat-lick1859

a lick and a promise1860

c1648 in Maidment Pasquils (1868) 154 We'll mark them with a lick of tarre.

a1771 T. Gray Candidate (?1780) 1 When sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugg'd up his face With a lick of court white-wash, and pious grimace.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 104 A Lick and a Slake.

1860 W. White All round Wrekin xx. 207 We only gives the cheap ones a lick and a promise.

1899 E. F. Heddle Marget at Manse 43 That lassie gi'es a lick and a promise when I tell her to sweep!

1922 A. Bennett Lilian i. vi. 57 The dirty kitchenmaid was giving the stone floor of the porch a lick and a promise.

1934 L. A. G. Strong Corporal Tune iii. ii. 230 The room, instead of its usual vigorous cleaning, got what Nelly would have called a lick and a promise.

1942 C. Morley Thorofare xl. 355 You ought to be writing the Adventures of a Crustacean. You've only done a lick and a promise. There's six more inches to fill.

1948 M. McCarthy in Partisan Rev. May 325 The Dublin Gate players..had a slapdash style of acting that suggested an Irish house~maid flailing about with a dust-cloth—they gave their roles a lick and a promise and trusted to the audience's good-nature to take the will for the deed.

1967 V. Lincoln Private Disgrace (1968) xi. 91 She had only a basin of water and a rag with which to give the insides of the windows a lick and a promise.

1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong vi. 142 A pale sun gave Rooksby a lick and a promise of better things to come.

1972 J. Burmeister Running Scared iii. 51 The isolation ward..was given a lick and a promise once a month by an unsupervised maid.

单词	a lick and a promise
释义	> as lemmas a lick and a promise b. colloquial. A slight and hasty wash (usually a lick and a promise). Also, a dab of paint, etc.; a hasty tidying up, a casual amount of work. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > of something which makes a mark touch1569 lickc1648 pop1718 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > an act of washing > hasty cat-lick1859 a lick and a promise1860 c1648 in Maidment Pasquils (1868) 154 We'll mark them with a lick of tarre. a1771 T. Gray Candidate (?1780) 1 When sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugg'd up his face With a lick of court white-wash, and pious grimace. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 104 A Lick and a Slake. 1860 W. White All round Wrekin xx. 207 We only gives the cheap ones a lick and a promise. 1899 E. F. Heddle Marget at Manse 43 That lassie gi'es a lick and a promise when I tell her to sweep! 1922 A. Bennett Lilian i. vi. 57 The dirty kitchenmaid was giving the stone floor of the porch a lick and a promise. 1934 L. A. G. Strong Corporal Tune iii. ii. 230 The room, instead of its usual vigorous cleaning, got what Nelly would have called a lick and a promise. 1942 C. Morley Thorofare xl. 355 You ought to be writing the Adventures of a Crustacean. You've only done a lick and a promise. There's six more inches to fill. 1948 M. McCarthy in Partisan Rev. May 325 The Dublin Gate players..had a slapdash style of acting that suggested an Irish house~maid flailing about with a dust-cloth—they gave their roles a lick and a promise and trusted to the audience's good-nature to take the will for the deed. 1967 V. Lincoln Private Disgrace (1968) xi. 91 She had only a basin of water and a rag with which to give the insides of the windows a lick and a promise. 1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong vi. 142 A pale sun gave Rooksby a lick and a promise of better things to come. 1972 J. Burmeister Running Scared iii. 51 The isolation ward..was given a lick and a promise once a month by an unsupervised maid. extracted from lickn. < as lemmas
随便看	to the third power to the this same to the throat to the top of one's bent to the touch to the townward to the townwards to the tune of to the utmost to the utterance to the utterest to the uttermost to the vantage to the velvet to the very soul to the view to the wall to the waterward to set in a say to set in action to set in adventure to set in another's neck to set in array to set in broil to set in delay

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