lick into shape
Example Sentences
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To turn to other matters, I have a couple of half finished O'Ds. which, if you like to print, I shall have time to lick into shape.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
Here’s another of the fools of a family made a present of to the country—another cub for me to lick into shape.
From Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat
But we may say that the main thing needed is to "lick into shape" the material, and then pass it on to the sub-conscious mind in the manner spoken of a few moments ago.
From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson
"Weird birds," soliloquized Mostyn; "but perhaps they'll lick into shape."
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Mr. Rae, the cool, dignified, methodical, exact man of the law, struggling to lick into shape this haughty Highland chieftain, who in his heart scorned the whole silly business.
From Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail by Ralph Connor
