lick and a promise

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A quick, not-very-thorough wash. idiomatic
    — My grandparents called me only an hour before they decided to come visit, so I had to give the dirty living room a lick and a promise.
  2. The hasty or incomplete performance of a task, done with the intention ("a promise") of thorough completion later. broadly,idiomatic
    — Now this is not the way to get a house in order. What this place needs is a real thorough old-fashioned cleaning. A lick and a promise won't do, no, sir!

词形变化

a lick and a promise canonical
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