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lick and a promise

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Source Word

lick and a promise

Noun

idiomatic broadly

(idiomatic) A quick, not-very-thorough wash. / (by extension, idiomatic) The hasty or incomplete performance of a task.

Japanese Meaning

手早く、あまり念入りでない洗い流し（洗い物や掃除などにおける不十分な処理） / 比喩的に、急いで不完全な作業を行うこと

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ロードトリップに出る前に車はさっと洗っただけだったので、途中で音が鳴り始めました。

Sense（1）

(idiomatic) A quick, not-very-thorough wash.

She'd given her face a lick and a promise, drawn her hair back tight and walked in.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(by extension, idiomatic) The hasty or incomplete performance of a task.

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!

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

a lick and a promise

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