lickety-split
Example Sentences
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Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace could have supplied us, lickety-split.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024
You then proceeded to get on your back halfway off the curb on the parking strip, quickly and efficiently changed my tire and I was on my way lickety-split.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023
Marshal, with lickety-split wit: “Some would say infamous.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022
With her help, he begins an acting career, which leads lickety-split to the top job at Paramount Pictures.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019
He loaded a boy’s wagon with ten-dollar bills and ran lickety-split through town.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
