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once-over-lightly

[ wuhns-oh-ver-lahyt-lee ]

noun

Informal.
  1. a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over:

    The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of once-over-lightly1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Idioms and Phrases

Cursorily, quickly, as in I did go over the program once over lightly, but perhaps I should read it more carefully . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]
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Trump has always been a once-over-lightly kind of guy when it comes to policy.

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This once-over-lightly approach is perhaps appropriate, given that Stritch was not inclined to introspection.

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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.

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She was not one for a once-over-lightly look at what the policy team was advocating.

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But we common folk, staring woefully at our bathroom mirrors, tend to give it the once-over-lightly.

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