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
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