As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety-split to the swimming pool.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
lickety cut — adverb without delay she tackled the job lickety split • Syn: ↑lickety split … Useful english dictionary
lickety-cut — adverb see lickety split … Useful english dictionary
lickety-split — 1852, Amer.Eng. (earlier lickety cut, lickety click, and simply licketie, 1817), from LICK (Cf. lick) (n.1) in dialectal sense very fast sprint in a race (1809) on the notion of a lick as a fast thing (Cf. blink) … Etymology dictionary
lickety-split — • lickety split • lickety cut adv informal At full speed; with a rush. As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety split to the swimming pool … Словарь американских идиом
lickety-split — also[lickety cut] {adv.}, {informal} At full speed; with a rush. * /As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety split to the swimming pool./ … Dictionary of American idioms
lickety-split — also[lickety cut] {adv.}, {informal} At full speed; with a rush. * /As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety split to the swimming pool./ … Dictionary of American idioms
lickety split — adverb without delay she tackled the job lickety split • Syn: ↑lickety cut … Useful english dictionary
lickety split — Synonyms and related words: amain, apace, at flank speed, double quick, expeditiously, fast, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hell for leather, hell bent, hell bent for election, in double time, in double quick time, in high, in high gear … Moby Thesaurus
Lickety-Splat — is a 1961 Warner Bros.Looney Tunes theatrical animated short. It features Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner and was made under the supervision of Chuck Jones.Wile E. Coyote, standing on the road, pulls out an arrow shaped sign saying Coyote and… … Wikipedia
apace — Synonyms and related words: PDQ, amain, at flank speed, at once, by forced marches, cursorily, decisively, directly, double quick, expeditiously, fast, feverishly, flat out, forthwith, furiously, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hell for… … Moby Thesaurus
