a lick and a promise

"Conservation got a lick and a promise," he said.

"Other times, to use a Texas phrase, we hit it a lick and a promise, and get out."

A lot of your thinking is based on the idea those investigating officers gave the house a lick and a promise and called it good.

"It could use a lick and a promise."

I did most of the cleaning at Nancy's house, though, so I'd mostly given that a lick and a promise.

"Just give the downstairs a lick and a promise," her mother finished, "and then run along.

I brushed my teeth and gave my face and hair a lick and a promise.

You know, a lick and a promise."

Malachy whispers our wash was a lick and a promise, that's what Mam would say.

These he gave "a lick and a promise," according to De Quille, who wrote afterward of their associations.

For every thing the man taught him, there were two more that made Asmodean either throw up his hands or give a lick and a promise.

She slipped quickly into a terry robe, ran her brush through her hair with a lick and a promise and started for the stairway.

The crop was light at the best, having been planted with a lick and a promise and not watered until too late to have a satisfactory stand."

This understandably gives a lick and a promise to air, train, bus and boat travel, and considerable pet-care details for auto travel.

"I just don't want to see us once again send out tax cuts with a lick and a promise and a hope that the spending cuts are coming later.

A day later; white overcast in the air that tasted of chilly rain on its way; the Ohio-Indiana border not much more than a lick and a promise from here.

"I will see what's clean in the closet, pull it out, get the iron, give it a lick and a promise, and I'm on my way," Coe-Jones said.

He found a rag, cleaned off the mirror, then gave the dresser top a lick and a promise, missing the good clean smell of wax and polish that the rooms should have had.

In October 2012, Jacobs released a new collection of songs on a 16-song CD entitled A Lick and a Promise by Jake and the Rest of the Jewels.

She must have dressed hastily, because her long black hair looked as though it had had just a lick and a promise from a brush, but her high-necked gray riding dress appeared neat and fresh.