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once-over-lightly
[wuhns-oh-ver-lahyt-lee]
noun
a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over.
The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of once-over-lightly1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
This once-over-lightly approach is perhaps appropriate, given that Stritch was not inclined to introspection.
It’s more a once-over-lightly juxtaposition of soil types and wine characteristics, along with a look at the grapes that thrive in each type of soil and suggestions of wine producers to seek out.
She was not one for a once-over-lightly look at what the policy team was advocating.
But we common folk, staring woefully at our bathroom mirrors, tend to give it the once-over-lightly.
If this book has a once-over-lightly feel, that is because there were many intertwined strands in Liszt’s extraordinary life, each of which could merit a book in itself.
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