You didn't wash your hands. You just gave them a lick and a promise.
The boys didn't cut the grass properly. All it got was a lick and a promise.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
Lick and a Promise — is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith first appearing on their album Rocks . Clocking in at 3:05, it is the album s shortest song. It was written by Joe Perry and Steven Tyler. About the song s lyrical content, Steven Tyler said (This… … Wikipedia
lick and a promise — {n. phr.}, {informal} A careless, hasty job; an unsatisfactory piece of work. * /You didn t wash your hands. You just gave them a lick and a promise./ * /The boys didn t cut the grass properly. All it got was a lick and a promise./ … Dictionary of American idioms
lick and a promise — {n. phr.}, {informal} A careless, hasty job; an unsatisfactory piece of work. * /You didn t wash your hands. You just gave them a lick and a promise./ * /The boys didn t cut the grass properly. All it got was a lick and a promise./ … Dictionary of American idioms
lick and a promise — phrasal : a perfunctory performance of a task gives his job little more than a lick and a promise Jack Iams breakfast over, I gave the house a lick and a promise Kathleen Thomas … Useful english dictionary
lick and a promise — See a lick and a promise … English idioms
lick and a promise — Mawdesley Glossary a scamped and hurried wash … English dialects glossary
a lick and a promise — A perfunctory wash • • • Main Entry: ↑lick * * * informal a hasty performance of a task, esp. of cleaning something * * * a lick and a promise 1 US : a quick and careless attempt to do something They gave the budget problems a lick and a promise … Useful english dictionary
give (something) a lick and a promise — 1. to clean something quickly and not carefully. I put on my new suit, gave my shoes a lick and a promise, and left the house. 2. to do a job or piece of work quickly and not carefully. We didn t have time to do much clearing up in the yard just… … New idioms dictionary
a lick and a promise — If you give something a lick and a promise, you do it hurriedly, most often incompletely, intending to return to it later … The small dictionary of idiomes
a lick and a promise — ► a lick and a promise informal a hasty wash. Main Entry: ↑lick … English terms dictionary
