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lick and a promise: a hasty and cursory performance in doing something: I didn't have time to clean thoroughly, so I gave the room a lick and a promise.

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Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to do a haphazard job. The image is of giving one blow (a lick) and then promising to finish it.

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